Just an hour outside Vienna there is a castle called Grafenegg, for four days the first week of December they host a Christmas Market.
My parents wanted to go so we also brought Luana & Brian for the family outing. How cute!

Christmas Road Trip! Grafenegg Castle

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Grafenegg Castle

me, brian&luana
Like all Christmas markets there were punsch stands and food stands, but this one was different cause it was in the courtyard of the castle…

snacks!
..inside there was many high class expensive crafts to buy. I only bought one thing (a disco angel). Which now sits in my office to bring me joy:

DISCO ANGEL!
While there was not that much decor, mostly just craft booths and things on sale, some rooms were left untouched and beautiful. Here are some flicks from inside the castle..

The chaple area was quite pretty, very picture worthy.
Brian & my dad had fun posing in the library room…

brian

dad
Outside the castle and surrounding area the festivities continued. There was open fires, snack huts, and lots of lights. We stopped to warm up by the fire…Also there was some random decor that featured apples dangling, and some of them already had bites in them! weird but funny.

luana&I by the fire

of course posing had to be done...

of course posing had to be done...
After strolling around we went to a Christmas Concert in the concerthalle (also on the castle grounds). I expected the concert to be super boring classical music, but it turned out to be this rock n roll live big band american type concert. It was awesome!! RocknRoll Christmas with bass, electric guitar, drums, saxophone, and piano…very entertaining, and very american. When we left it was dark…
oh and how could I forget!! the random LAMAS which you could pet & walk!!! hahahahaha I have no idea what the significance of those were but Luana & I couldn’t get enough

lamas!

we <3 lamas

i <3 lamas

we <3 lamas
bye Grafenegg….I will really miss Christmas Markets when I move back to Canada.

beautiful!

beautiful
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