Oh Vienna, Austria--what a gem of a city! We took a train from Prague to Vienna Friday morning and spent the last few days of our trip in the Austrian capital. Chelsey has a friend who was an exchange student at her high school and who studies in Vienna, so we decided to stay at her place for FREE (a college student's favorite "f-word"). She showed us around the city and took us to some of the major sites like the Opera House, the Hofburg Imperial Palace, St. Stephan's Cathedral, Belvedere Palace, and the Austrian Parliament Building (which looks more like a Gothic cathedral than a governmental building--I guess that is historic Europe for you, though). On the first night we went to a Le Gros Tube concert at a local bar. The band is Parisian and they play brass, percussion, and strings and sing reggae-like songs. We all had a lot of fun swaying to the music, and I got very excited when they played a cover of a Rage Against the Machine song.
We spent the most of Saturday in the famous market, where scarves, jewelry, ceramics, shoes, fruits, vegetables, spices, candies, etc., etc., etc., are sold. Basically, you want it, they got it! After purchasing a few things, we made our way to some other sites in the city. The weather was wonderful--sunny and warm--and we were dying in our jeans in tank tops and wishing we had shorts! Actually, we saw quite a few people with down jackets on with fur collars...maybe they are from Ecuador or the Sahara and found the weather to be chilling? Anyway, we ended our spring break with a trip to an Austrian musical called Der Tanz Vampire (The Dance of the Vampires), and it was wonderful! Although the lyrics and conversation were in German, we had Chelsey's friend with us to translate the important parts. We laughed and said it was like we were playing "Telephone"--sitting in a line repeating what the person before us had said in our ear. The music was very beautiful and we all laughed when they used Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" as a part of the music lineup.
Overall, it was a wonderful spring break, and I shared some great experiences with some wonderful friends!
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