A number of years ago my sister lived in Budapest and I went to visit her on vacation with my best friend Noam. We have known each other since high school and rarely a week goes by that we do not speak on the phone or get together. We took advantage of Budapest's relative proximity to Vienna and went on a day trip to visit the Hapsburg capital. The city was an incredible experience for me and put me closer to my German roots than I had ever been before. We stopped to eat the sandwich lunch my sister had prepared for us in a small park on the central ring of Vienna and as I looked skyward the crane and the statue seemed to be waltzing together.