Whoa!! I'm WAY behind on this thing. We've been super busy lately and there's absolutely no time for the internet. I'll try to remember all the really good stories from the past few days though. Let's see, where did I leave off...I think the Danube trip. One more thing about that-When we got on the boat there were a ton of Asian kids on the boat. It looked like a college trip, they were all wearing the same uniform. Anyway, we got to talking about the Titanic and how our boat was going to sink. Jake, this big guy who says about one sentence a day, bursts out with 'If this boat sinks I'm gonna make a raft out of China people.' I didn't think I was every going to stop laughing. Once again, it's probably not that funny to read, but it was seriously the funniest thing ever. Especially since they were all from Japan. Anyway, enough about that trip.
The next day we didn't do too much. Stacy was still sick and we didn't want her to miss out on anything. Tom, Cat, and I decided to go shopping. I needed to replace the sunglasses Tom crushed on the top of the mountain and we needed to get a few more things. We went to the major shopping street but instead of going the way we usually do we decided to go the other way. BAD IDEA. Holy nasty Batman. We decided to go into a store that was like the Austrian version of Family Dollar, only nastier. Tom picked up a sweet ass Jeff Lebowsky pink button up shirt for 2 Euros. When I say sweet ass I mean shiny, ugly, and vaguely disturbing. We went to a few more shops, they were just as gross. We dubbed the street 'Second Hand Strasse'. (Strasse=Street) After awhile I had to go to the bathroom so we decided to stop in this little pub and grab a quick drink so I could pee. We went in at about 4:00 and left at drunk o'clock. Ooooops. Parents, stop reading here. When we went back we decided to do some more drinking (great idea, I know) The culmination of the evening was the MINI keg stand performed by yours truly. Just to let you know, it's virtually impossible. I got beer everywhere. You definitely need a hose for that stuff. And don't worry, there are pictures.
Tuesday we went to the zoo. That was pretty neat. They had all your standard zoo animals. After that we went to a free concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. It was like they said they were handing out free cars. There was SOOOO many people there. We're talking thousands and thousands. It was awesome though. Everyone wanted to leave pretty early because it was cold out so just Tom and I stayed. It was nice, but the subway after the show was unbelievably crowded. I never knew I could be smooshed up against that many people at the same time. It was pretty nasty.
Wednesday we checked out Stephansdom again. We did it during daylight hours though so we could see everything. It's an amazing piece of architecture. We went down into the catacombs underneath the church. They had piles of bones and one room where they had put a bunch of the bones from victims of the Black Plague. They had scraped off all the skin and piled the bones like lumber. It was creepy but really really cool. Since we had gone down we decided to go up. We climbed the tallest tower of Stephansdom. 343 steps, all on a spiral staircase. I felt the burn, believe me. The view from up there was awesome, but most of it was blocked by scaffolding. It was still worth it though. The trip down was worse than the trip up, I got so dizzy.
That night we went with a big group of us and got the best ribs EVER from a little restaurant across town. After we got done eating Carrie, Tom, and I didn't feel like going back so we headed to the Philosoph for a beer or two. Once again, great idea. Parents, if you defied my orders to quit reading last time, quit reading here. Carrie decided that she wanted to try some Absinth. We're talking the liqour that is ILLEGAL in the US. She didn't just try it, she tried THREE shots of it. As for the taste I quote 'If you like black licorice it's good, if you like being drunk it's better'-Carrie Miller. She was a little wasted. She decided that she wanted to stay at the bar for a little while with a friend (don't worry, she was in good hands) so Tom and I decided to head home. We hopped on a bus to take us back to Rennweg. When we were sitting there waiting to go I told Tom that I thought that we were on the wrong bus. He said we should just take it anyway. Bad idea. Really really bad idea. We got SOOO lost. We hopped on another random bus that we thought would take us back but when we had been on for awhile we thought that maybe we were wrong. (We should have just stayed on it) After walking around for a long ass time we just gave up and caught a Mercedes taxi home. It was 3:30 by then. AHHHHHHH!!! Getting up for class at 7:30 frickin' SUCKED!
Yesterday we skipped out of class early to go watch a rehearsal at the Spanish Riding School. Tom, Stacy, and Cat weren't too enthralled, but then again they couldn't appreciate the complexity of the piaffes, the passages, the canter half passes, the pirouettes, etc. I could have stayed there all day. They didn't do all their really cool tricks though, you have to go to a show to see that. After that we went to the Fine Arts Museum and saw a bunch more really famous paintings. Then it was definitely nap time. We went home and napped until we were hungry, went out and got pizza, came back and went to bed. We all definitely needed the rest. Especially Tom and I!
Today is kind of an errand day. Stacy and I went and got bus tickets to Budapest. We wanted to go to Prague but there were only 3 seats left and we needed 4. Figures. We can't go to Venice because the train was booked for the day we wanted to leave. Budapest should be fun though. But my fingers are starting to hurt from the novel I just wrote. It's time to get back and plan the rest of the day anyway. We have to figure out what there is to do in the rain. It's been pouring all day. I'm sure we'll find something though.
- posted by Jaime @ 5:48 AM