Yesterday in Vienna was easily th hottest day by far. It started out early at around 3 am, when the fire alarm in the next building went off. I would sy that it woke me up, but that would suggest that I was actually asleep. My bed could possible be make out of rocks, but th jury is still out, so I was already awake trying desperately to find a non-rock part of the bed when the alarm went off. For about an hour, the alarm kep us up as we checked to see that it wasn't actually our building, and as we stuck our heads out of the window looking to see if a) the fire department was going to come or b) people were going to start running out of the building. I'm pretty sure the fire department came, although I don't think that anything was actually on fire. It kind of reminded me of when the fire alarm would go on in the dorms at college, except less of a social event and therefore less fun. Finally, dad whipped out the earplugs and we managed to get back to sleep for the rest of the night.
That morning whilest at breakfast, we met two women who were from Connecticut, Brenda and Robin that were staying at our pension. They had been there for a Convention and were staying in the pension for about a week after to check out Vienna. We chatted them up, they made fun of my ET internship and generally a good time was had by all.
We ended up heading for the Hofsburg palace where the Hapsburgs, the rulers of the Austro-Hungargian Empire had lived. We took the tour that included the silver/porcelain dinnerwear collection (which by the way is ridiulously huge) and then the tour of Apartments that included a section devoted to Elisabeth AKA 'Sisi' the Empress of the Empire and a very famous and generally loved figure in Austrian history. Her story was pretty fascinating. Sort of a Princess Diana type story of a young beautiful, but tortured woman. She was pretty obsessed with her beauty and was about 5'8" and 100 pounds. Very thin.
We also got to see the rooms of the palace and learn about some of the other rulers. All in all I thought it was a cool place with a lot of ornate details in each room.
After this we got to see the opera, which reminded me a lot of most theatres that I have visited, but was still exciting to go to because it is probably one of, if not the most famous opera houses in the world. We aren't able to see a show, since they are in their off season.
For dinner we decided to eat at the same restuarant as the night before, a nice place a bit off the beaten track, with an unusually nice waitstaff.
We also got a chance to have ice cream at the famous Zanoni & Zanoni ice cream shop where we had DELICIOUS and BIG ice cream creations. YUUM!!
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