A Few Hours in Slovakia
I agreed to go to Vienna with the caveat of doing a day trip to Slovakia. This was the best of both worlds- David got to visit his dream city, and I got to see somewhere new and check off a new country! Well, we all did. Our updated country tallies are 22 (Marissa), 12 (David), 5 (Magnolia), and 4 (Rosalie). I think it's a great life goal for the girls' country tallies to always surpass their ages. See bottom of the post for my country count :) Getting to Bratislava, Slovakia was as easy as hopping on an hour-long train ride from the Wien Hauptbahnhof. We enjoyed the relaxing ride on an old-fashioned style train with compartments. Please note the pile of stuffed animals on my lap. Very proud that we managed to not lose any of them on this trip. Despite the short distance geographically, the Bratislava train station felt worlds away from Vienna pretty immediately. We were surrounded by a different language that we understood none of, and it felt a bit like stepping back in ti...
