Vienna (Trevor

We started June with an amazing day, one of he better ones we've had. We are now in Austria, Vienna to be exact, we got in last night so the first thing we did this morning was to hit up a tourist info place to see what we should do. The lady was very helpful, and we planned out our day, she also talked us into taking a wine tour the next day. Mom was really excited, and amber and I thought it would be interesting so we said sure why not, so stay tuned for that tomorrow.

So we were off to check out Schlos Schonbrunn, it's the "summer palace" of the royal family "Hapsburg". It's similar to versaille in Paris. We were guided through the palace, which was similar, but the nice thing is that they furished the rooms for their actual purpose rather than for displaying art. We learned some good history too. There is the one queen, called "Sissy" and I hated her from the moment we heard about her. She was forced to marry the king of Austria, and he loved her dearly, but she thought of marriage as an institution, and dispised it. She spent hours a day combing her hair. She never had a portrait painter of her, after she was 30, because she was aging. And she rarely attended family meals, because she watched her figure. She wasn't even that pretty.

Amber says it was because of her evil mother in law, always spying on her and amber says "she can relate" jk.

Amber bought some "sissy" earing and says she wants to be just like her, just because I desipse her.

The grounds here were far better than the grounds at versille. They were better decorated and actually had flowers, what a concept. There was a beautiful bulding at the top of a hill that overlooked the palace and the whole city of Vienna. There was also a labyrinth that we got to go into and have some fun in. All in all this was a great place.

We then headed to an awesome market, except than when we got there EVERYTHING was closed, because it was a stupid holiday here. So finally we found a place to eat, it was nearly 3 o'clock. The waiter talked into getting shnapps, except he brought us some nasty tasting stuff that wasn't good at all. Before we drank, I wanted a picture of everyone's glasses, so I said "everyone put your hands on your shnapps" and mom burst out laughing, she said that sounded dirty, and after 3 mintures or so she finally stopped crying from lauging so hard.

Next we went to check out "the crooked house". It was this building that was designed by someone. Everythig was crooked, nothing was straight, floors, walls, it was very neat. In this place, there was a art exibition, some weird art from picaso, and the guy whodesign the buildigs. I'm not a big fan of weird drawings that I don't undersand, but the buildings themselves were really neat.

So were off to see downtown; we jumped on a tram, and rode it for a while, and got off When some crazy guy starting talking to amber in German, he was kinda scary.

We sat on the lawn, at the winter palace and amber read a fairytale to us, told us all about Vienna and the sites we saw and were going to see.

We then went and checked out a gothic cathedral, very very gothic.

After that we saw this really good street performer from austraillia, he did some amazing acrobatics on this giant pole, he was really good and was like nothing we had seen.

After that we headed home, we got lost in the subway station for the second time trip, we walked right through it, following the signs to our line, then all of a sudden we were outside again, so we backtracked, and found this tiny sign by an elevator that we missed.

We came back, had a beer or 2, talked with a gay couple from San Fransisco. Then headed for bed.

written by  Trevor and Amber on June 1, 2009 from Wien, Austria
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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