Aug 5, 2009

Vienna, Austria (day 3)

We woke up Sunday morning with all intentions of going for a run around Vienna, but both decided against it. Our legs and feet had the final say... and they said no. I also woke up not feeling very well and only hoped I would get a magical cure so I could go on with the day.

We hopped on the metro for the Belvedere Palace... it was around 11 in the morning and the heat was already in full force. Even though the palace was big... it was no comparison to the Schoenbrunn Palace. We, of course, enjoyed walking around throughout the gardens and viewing the different angles of the palace though. The palace, which is also called Upper Palace, was built in 1720. Since being in Europe I haven't seen and touched so many old buildings in my life! We saw all that there was to see and headed out the big palace gates.

After we left and walked about a block down the street we soon realized we were near where we were on Friday. We laughed because we purposely chose to go to this Palace separately because we thought it was too far away to walk. Little did we know we could have walked to it on Friday! We remembered seeing a building that had a large gold ball made of metal on its roof, so that was our next stop... we just had to find it first. We walked around for a good 20 minutes in the wrong direction until we decided to go up one random street and of course there it was to our right! It ended up not really being worth the walk though... it looked cooler from a distance.

From there we were ready for some food and a nice cold drink so we walked towards the infamous TGI Fridays. Man, what a delicious meal! Andrew got a bacon cheeseburger and I got a chicken/shrimp plate that was to die for! After our bellies were full we stopped for a nice cup of coffee.

We started to run out of ideas of things to do and decided we were ready to just sit and relax in the air conditioning, so to the airport it was. We were getting there a little early, but figured we would have shops we could go into and places to sit, boy were we wrong! Vienna airport is not like most of the previous airports we have been to and basically sat around being bored. It didn't help matters that our airplane left 25 minutes late (like all our other airplanes), which then made us sprint once getting off the airplane to the bus that took us back to Bonn. Only to get on the bus and be told that we had to pay more because our tickets weren't right (they were right!!!)... this is hard to explain to someone that doesn't understand English though and us not being able to speak German.

After a bit of a stressful afternoon and evening we finally made it back home! We enjoyed Vienna, Austria very much and it was a beautiful city.



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