I am living in Vienna, just blocks from the legendary old-time amusement park Praterstern which makes for a lovely walk home through the fun.

Old school colorful glass bulbs blink on and off in sequence, casting their colored light across the empty grounds of Pratter amusement park. Orien and I walk past beautiful hand painted murals, tea cup rides, a haunted houses, claw machines, old fashioned punching bag games, An old witchy-lady fortune telling lady machine, a three story Magic Dreamland Funhouse with Michael Jackson’s eyes airbrushed onto the front of it, giant fiberglass figurines, as well as an enormous lucky piggy ATM.

Hovering above everything is Prater Tower standing high above us with a beautiful copper clock topping off its blinking, rotating arms.

And before I know it, we are swirling in the sky, dangling from swinging chairs, above the twinkling city of Vienna. Oh life!