"jetzt bin ich ja wieder gesund!"
Thank you, Justin and Chris! It's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna and I have been working on attacking the piles of German homework (I guess Andrea figures that it's intensive and so we have nothing else to do with ourselves until classes start two weeks from tomorrow - wow, is it really already that close?) but I couldn't take it anymore. But apparently my show is destined to be a cult classic. So who wants to write/produce/make it? ;)
So anyways, I discovered today that Austrian children do lemonade stands as well. Since I was once again foiled on the Baptist church (they don't have 11:30 services anymore apparently, only 10 at the latest) I went walking through my neighborhood in a different direction than I took last week and on Mollardgasse just as I was heading back to the Haus Salzburg, there were these cute little girls calling out "Limonade, limonade!" which over here is the word for any drink that's not juice or cola. And since Mollardgasse is a fairly quiet street so they weren't going to be getting a whole ton of business and I didn't have anywhere to be or do, I gave them 50 cents and got a glass of some sort of raspberry Kool-aid equivalent. It was nice. Definitely put a smile on my face.
I found another church this morning. Last week's had something to do with Schubert, this week's with Hadyn. Once again, completely by accident. I wonder what composer I'll find next week? I could go out to Grinzing and see Beethoven's church, but it wouldn't be an accidental discovery like these last two...but I'll be back in the Schubert church tonight for the 7:00 Gottesdiesnt. Maybe I'll understand the priest better this week. :p
Yesterday was an absolute blast. Klaudia and I met Beth and B.A. at Schoenbrunn Palace, which is the old summer palace of the Hapsburgs. I'd been there before with German class on that trip, but it's been nearly four years and so we looked all over the huge grounds and gardens and stuff. There's even the oldest zoo in the world there, which is really quite cool. They just got pandas last year, too! So I had fun with that. And they, unlike Larry and most of the world's population, do have a water buffalo. Several, actually. And I have pictures to prove it. :)
Anyways, we ate lunch at this really neat Viennese restaurant, then went back to the rest of the grounds because they really are that big. We spent six hours, including lunch, out at Schoenbrunn. Then we went to the Prater, which is an amusement park in the second district with a really big Ferris wheel. But we didn't ride that 'cause it was 7,50 Euro. Not so cool. But I did get my bumper car ride. Beth had also never been on them and so she rode with me, working the gas pedal while I steered. Way too much fun. We were laughing our heads off by the time we got done. Then it was to Schwedenplatz to a fairly well-known ice cream place. Best strawberry sundae EVER. I usually don't like strawberry ice cream, but the stuff they put in this sundae was amazing. And the strawberry slices were massive. And whipped cream here is not your usual American, mostly air stuff. We're talking from whole milk. Enough to give you a heart attack, but that's why you walk the massive palace grounds for six hours, including the huge hill to the gloriette. :p I see why Joseph said that I needed to "eat all the desserts you can, because you will cry when you go back to Dairy Queen America." Perhaps it won't be that extreme, but the desserts are good. And I do love desserts.
Alright, no more time wasting. Besides, it's nearly two and I haven't eaten lunch yet. Let's go fix that. :p
So anyways, I discovered today that Austrian children do lemonade stands as well. Since I was once again foiled on the Baptist church (they don't have 11:30 services anymore apparently, only 10 at the latest) I went walking through my neighborhood in a different direction than I took last week and on Mollardgasse just as I was heading back to the Haus Salzburg, there were these cute little girls calling out "Limonade, limonade!" which over here is the word for any drink that's not juice or cola. And since Mollardgasse is a fairly quiet street so they weren't going to be getting a whole ton of business and I didn't have anywhere to be or do, I gave them 50 cents and got a glass of some sort of raspberry Kool-aid equivalent. It was nice. Definitely put a smile on my face.
I found another church this morning. Last week's had something to do with Schubert, this week's with Hadyn. Once again, completely by accident. I wonder what composer I'll find next week? I could go out to Grinzing and see Beethoven's church, but it wouldn't be an accidental discovery like these last two...but I'll be back in the Schubert church tonight for the 7:00 Gottesdiesnt. Maybe I'll understand the priest better this week. :p
Yesterday was an absolute blast. Klaudia and I met Beth and B.A. at Schoenbrunn Palace, which is the old summer palace of the Hapsburgs. I'd been there before with German class on that trip, but it's been nearly four years and so we looked all over the huge grounds and gardens and stuff. There's even the oldest zoo in the world there, which is really quite cool. They just got pandas last year, too! So I had fun with that. And they, unlike Larry and most of the world's population, do have a water buffalo. Several, actually. And I have pictures to prove it. :)
Anyways, we ate lunch at this really neat Viennese restaurant, then went back to the rest of the grounds because they really are that big. We spent six hours, including lunch, out at Schoenbrunn. Then we went to the Prater, which is an amusement park in the second district with a really big Ferris wheel. But we didn't ride that 'cause it was 7,50 Euro. Not so cool. But I did get my bumper car ride. Beth had also never been on them and so she rode with me, working the gas pedal while I steered. Way too much fun. We were laughing our heads off by the time we got done. Then it was to Schwedenplatz to a fairly well-known ice cream place. Best strawberry sundae EVER. I usually don't like strawberry ice cream, but the stuff they put in this sundae was amazing. And the strawberry slices were massive. And whipped cream here is not your usual American, mostly air stuff. We're talking from whole milk. Enough to give you a heart attack, but that's why you walk the massive palace grounds for six hours, including the huge hill to the gloriette. :p I see why Joseph said that I needed to "eat all the desserts you can, because you will cry when you go back to Dairy Queen America." Perhaps it won't be that extreme, but the desserts are good. And I do love desserts.
Alright, no more time wasting. Besides, it's nearly two and I haven't eaten lunch yet. Let's go fix that. :p