The scientific sessions were excellent at the meeting, with a packed house at the first session on female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the dinners to which we were invited were wonderful, including a private showing of the Chagall exhibit.
While Sue was sightseeing at the Schonbrunn (the summer palace) and sitting in at the
conference hel
d in the Hofburg (the winter palace),Lil was home seeing new and old clients, and decorating her house for the holidays. Vienna was decorated with outdoor Christmas Markets and lights, and the pedestrian ways had street vendors and street performers. This is the home of the Lipizaner horses and the moving Anker clock, but what was most amazing was touring the world famous State Opera House, damaged but not destroyed by bombs and fire, magnificent and stately, and overwhelming to a woman who had sat by her father's knee as a child and listened to opera. Sue was there on the anniversary
of Mozart's death (considered Austria's most famous citizen), one of the few days the Opera House held an event that was neither opera nor ballet.
Food and drink are always plentiful in the city,
wienerscnitzel and gluhwein, Mozart candies, but it is always good to be home in one's own bed, eating some nice roast chicken and drinking a glass of Poland Spring water! 
After recovering, we will be full steam ahead next week to work on revisions that have been given to us by our esteemed medical consultant, shown here drooling over hand made Viennese pastry. Maybe it was a good thing we hadn't yet completed proofing that section!!
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