Vienna

This morning we all woke up early and headed off for the day. We are again without a blow dryer so our hair is a mess. We showered and then went to a little breakfast place on the shopping street. They all had a nice meal but in hopes of saving money I ate at mcdonalds. It was pretty good but a lot of mayo. They love their mayo in Europe. Too bad they don't know about ranch. After breakfast we walked down to the Nike store where I bought some brazil soccer shorts and promptly put them on. Ahhh so nice. I love sweatpants and I hadn't brought one pair. Have no Idea what I was thinking. These are heaven and I have vowed not to take them off until I get into America. So far so good on that promise. After Nike we got on the subway and rode into the old part of town. We walked through st. Stephans basilica. Another church another day. But the roof was pretty sweet. It had green and white and blue tiles in a cool v pattern. We then walked towards the castle to see what it had. We took some pics and walked around a little before we decided to tour sisi's living quarters. The while first floor was dedicated to china. Every plate they ever used. Bor. Ing. We had an audio guide that we could listen to the history of each piece but for some reason after the 3rd plate room and the 13th number the audio guide fell in my purse. Oh dang. It went all the way into the 50s. Many more rooms. Hot rooms. Very hot rooms. Charlie however was lovin it??? He wouldn't not listen to a number or fast forward. I waited on a bench. Hahah. Then we went up to see the living quarters. I glanced in a mirror on my way up... Wow. I had 2 giant circles under my boobs from sweaing so much and 2 half foot wide sweat marks on eah shoulder where my backpack sat. I looked rediculous. So rediculous I imediately changed my shirt. But not before I got a pic. Don't worry. The living quarters were a lot more interesting than the plates. I actually listened to the guide but def. Fast forwarded and skipped some. Grace was the slow one here. Get it girl. I was suprised by how small their space was. I'm sure it was bug back then but now days it would be considered tiny! It was actually very goregous though. Red walls with elegant white and gold ceilings. It was very cool to see. When we finished we went outside to wait for grace and much to our dismay the weather turned. It even threatened to rain. Ahhhhh so so happy. We walked around the corner as it rained on us in search of food. No complaints! We ate at the first place we came to and I am in love. They give you a card when you walk in and then you go get your food. You have the option of pizza, salad or pasta. If you get pizza you order it and they give you a buzzer. For the others though you walk up to the chefs and tell them your order and they make it right on front of you. I was in love. Such an awesome place. They all ordered pizza which I will never understand but I got pasta. They didn't have an English menu which makes it hard but you know it's better because they are catering to the locals, not the tourists. The shrimp dishes looked so good that I just asked the chef which menu options had shrimp. One with a tomato and one with a white sauce and spinach. I got the white sauce and chose my noodle. They had 8 different options of noodles which were made in house. It was top 3 meals of the trip. Cream sauce with a little pesto and big shrimp and Parmesan with spinach and tomatoes. Oh wow. And! At the table they had fresh herbs on the table. Like in pots pick a leaf of basil or thyme off fresh. ahhh. It was delcious. 

After lunch we went to go find the Freud museum. Grace was upset because we didn't see more of the castle so we went and looked aroud more. We saw the gardens and the city hall which they were setting up for a big Aids event with a giant red carpet. It looked awesome. It's just hard to make everyone happy because no one will voice their oppinions making it impossible to get things done. We walked all the way across town to goto the freud museum and when we got there decided to goto a wine garden instead. About then I put my map away and said I'm not navigator anymore. I'm follower. Tell me where to go and what to do and I will be happy. We took the metro to it's end and then got on a tram and took it to it's end and then imediately found a wine garden and went in. We had a glass of wine or two and talked for an hour or so and then headed back to get ready for the evening. On our way we went to go to a couple stores. I wanted another pair of shorts and a clutch so I can throw my purse away. It's entirely too hot to wear that thing around. Eww. Grace wanted a bra and we popped pit right in front of a place. That was the only store we went to. Everywhere closed at 6. Grr. Everywhere. And they weren't open Sundays. Ugh so we got more ice cream and headed back to the hostel. They all showered but I read instead. No point in showering without a hair dryer. Haha. Grace and sarah looked all cute... I wore my blue shorts hahah. We didn't leave until around 9 and we went to this food circus. Apparently Vienna puts on 60 free activities in the summer at the city hall for the people to enjoy and there are food stands along the sides. It ended up being the aids benefit which was very amazing. They had a giant red carpet and a orchestra with dancers and singers and amazing graphics. It was very cool. It was vey packed though. We had to push our way in and lost Charlie and Sarah once we got in. They didn't want to brave the crowd and grace was upset but I told her who cares let's just have fun. It wasn't that crowded when we got in or at least people weren't touching me but we only got to be there for about 15 minutes before the downpour started. I welcomed it. Anything but 105 degree weather is welcome in my book! We stayed for a couple more minutes and then headed off to meet the others. It took us 30 minutes to find them and when we got the grace was pissed and they had left us. We called and they came back and then she let them have it. I was the middle man tryin to keep the peace haha. We went back to a cook Irish pub we had found but they didn't serve food and it was now 10:30 and no one had eaten dinner so that was quickly vetoed. We ended up in another place with individual beer taps at each table but ours didn't have one. Sad. There weren't many food choices but I got wings. I was worried about wings without ranch but they were good. Plain with a sweet chili sauce. Mmm. And potatoe wedges. I was still hungry after though. We had originally wanted to go out for the night but after all the events we decided to just go home. When we went to go outside it was pouring rain again. It was interesting finding the metro but we did as we ran through the rain. It was so much fun. When we came out of the metro we declared it a race to the hostel and went out the wrong exit and ran in the wrong way. I was the first to realize which way was the right way... Behind us... So I went that way. The walked behind me but didn't follow me and grace ran across the street and the other two another way. I ended up waiting for 10 minutes for them to figure out where the were and then got yelled at. Awesome. Now Sarah was the middleman haha. We went back and I emailed my job to make sure I still have one to come back to and then read and went to bed. My bed was soaked from the rain because our window was open. Grr. But it was a pretty good day and night!