2010/8/11 Austria Day 7 – Stadt Park

After saying goodbye to Hundertwasserhaus, we went to the Central Park.  We bought some hotdogs and pizza at a Bahn station near the Naschmarkt.  We were going to picnic at the park. 

We did not have any blanket.  Therefore we chose a site with benches and lawn.

After our lunch, we went to the main entrance of the park to enter the park again.

We looked for children playgrounds.  Big sis and the children took one path while Tin and I took another one.

Tin and I peeked from above.  They looked very happy without us.

The following two photos should be Tyler’s work.

The children were often curious at things which did not draw our attention at all.  That was how they discovered their own world.

It was so happy to have Big Sis keeping me company.  Family support was so natural and down-to-earth.

Finally we arrived at the playground.  We stayed at the one for younger children first.

Tyler was attracted by the one for bigger kids.  He went there by himself.

Faye, Trevor and Ron had much challenges here.

They spotted some coins at the swing.  They felt like discovering some treasure.  They wanted to know how the treasure appeared.  I explained to them that the coins usually were dropped carelessly by silly guys.  They were lucky ones.  Therefore, I let them have them.  Later on, we had got the answer.  The silly guy was their dad, Tin :P

After playing for quite some time, we all moved to the playground for bigger kids. 

Besides playing at the playground, we also toured round the park.  Tyler was reading the park map.  We followed the tour book and located all the statues.  The statue on the third picture below was Franz Schubert.

Ron was a really tough boy.  He did not complain of tiredness in the whole trip.  However, Trevor always asked for a ride on the pushchair.  These was the last day of our trip.  Both were tired after playing for a long time.  They both sat on the pushchair.  Ron was so generous to let Trevor sit at the front.

We stopped at a lake.  Many locals also spent their leisure by the lake.  It was so peaceful and relaxing to sit down and watch the ducks.

Someone gave some bread to the children.  They fed the ducks.

Time was running short.  We headed to the last statue, which was the theme of this park. 

It was Johannes Brahms, a composer of many waltz music.  The Japanese loved him so much that they donated money to coat this statue with gold.  The person on the first photo was not any of us.  She was only a visitor.  Our mouth left open wide as she grabbed the statue as a pose to take photo.  We should not do that as it might damage the statue.  That was a good lesson to our kids as we were waiting in the line for our turn.  The quality of some Europeans (we believe) was not as high as many people expected. 

 

Our last sightseeing ended here.  We were so reluctant to leave.