We'll admit we've been spoiled by being upgraded to suites up until now at every Hilton location up to now on our current European trip - Vienna Plaza, Budapest WestEnd, Budapest Plaza, Doubletree Bratislava.
We checked in at the Hilton Vienna and we got... a room.
It'll do.
Updated: Actually, it didn't. Unseasonably warm and sunny weather, coupled with the air conditioning not being turned on in mid-March, made the room unbearable the first night. The hotel was kind enough to help us find a tolerable room for our second night.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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