A week of gifts

Two and a half months after we put all of our earthly belongings in a crate and shipped it to Vienna, it arrived! On the very same day as Nils's 40th birthday! It felt like it was raining surprises. We woke up early and had breakfast and Nils opened his first gift of the day. 

I was pretty excited to give him these bike coffee mugs. They are from a ridiculously cute store down the street with all locally made arts and crafts.

I'm not sure if it is punctuality, but the work men here always show up earlier than you would expect. In no time the doorbell rang and 3 large men were carrying everything we had into our apartment. The nice man bringing in bike after bike remarked, "viele Fahrräder!"="Many bikes!".

After they left, we quickly opened up all the kitchen boxes and got to work unwrapping our wedding gifts that we haven't even used yet! I was carefully unwrapping our amazing gifts from our families and imagining all the great future dinner parties we could have, if only we could teleport them here.

 After spending a few hours at our awesome new neighbors house drinking prosecco, we went to dinner at a great restaurant in the 'hood called Slopik & Lohn. Check out the ceiling. When we buy a house I'm totally doing this.

And that was the day! We have since been trying to unpack and get organized, which is way more fun than packing. In fact, I went on my first bike ride in Vienna today, and will go on another tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. So, you can imagine what the next post will be about. xo-j.