Vienna

We literally spent less than 24 hours in Vienna. For some reason I guess in my mind I had this picture of Vienna in my head, but it didn't really turn out to be that way. Don't get me wrong it was definitely pretty, but we really only had one night there and left the next day at 2pm so I felt like we didn't get to see all of its worth. The first night though Val, Tessa, and I went to the Opera to see a Ballet. They have cheap standing student tickets every night so we decided to make use of our time there. When we got there though, we found out they also had student seats for only 10 euro versus 4 euro for standing. With my ankle we thought the seats were the better option, especially since it wasn't even that much more. When we got inside we didn't believe our seats. We were in the 12th row, and even Val went to go ask the guy if we were in the right seats because we thought it was too good to be true. The Ballet was beautiful; I'm so happy that the three of us did it even though no one else from our group joined. The music and the type of dance isn't really what I'm used to, but the performance together was superb and each dancer was incredibly talented. I was in awe just watching that amount of talent even though it wasn't particular our normal form of entertainment. This is a picture of the famous Opera House where we saw the ballet.

The next morning we woke up early to start what I called the Frick walking tour. I used my kindle to find the top sights in Veinna and then I mapped out how to get to them. Unfortunately they weren't as easy as planned to find using the map and as you can see from the pictures it was snowing all day. Who would have thought it would be snowing in Vienna when it was in the forties in Berlin.We did get to see some of the attractions but spent most of the morning trying to find this palace which we ended up just giving up on. This was the really pretty dome near the opera house which I can't remember its name from the top of my head.

 The coolest part of Vienna was that I was famous! Just kidding but they had a bookstore chain called Frick. I saw many of its signs across the cities. I went inside to try and buy a book or something with Frick on it but I couldn't even find on. Instead I just got a business card and a post card.

 We did get some pretty snow pictures of the parliament buildings, and other sights.

 Apparently, Vienna's ferris wheel is a huge tourist attraction. It called the Wiener Riesenarad and has appeared in lots of popular films. Unfortunately the amusement park that it's located in wasn't open so we couldn't ride any of the rides.

 Vienna was short lived, but still I'm glad we went. Just adding another city and country to my big list. We left at around 2 and got on a train to Budaaaapest!