End of the day in Vienna

I'm back at the hostel by myself having some quality me time because Kent and Maggie wanted to go to a classical music concert and I really had no desire to go. But it was all good because after only a day a half I am totally comfortable using the public transportation on my own, I made it back hitch free. I even made a friend with a crazy old lady on the bus. She was very nice and told me she saw Guns and Roses a few years back and then gave me candy from Vienna. I suppose candy is how child abducters get kids to get in their cars, but I threw caution to the wind and rolled those dice. Turned out fine so far and I don't think I'm hallucinating yet so I think it is ok.

Today we got up for breakfast early to make sure we ate more then our fair share and put some in our pockets to save for later. Serves them right for giving us breakfast. Tomorrow morning will be the same routine. After breakfast we relaxed back in the room for a little and did some laundry, but we had to wait for it all to dry and didn't get out until 11-ish which wasn't too bad. We headed to where the museums are and started with natural history. That museum was soooo cool. It had all kinds of stuffed dead animals for us to look at. Literally everything from the little worms through what they evolved into ending at gorillas and lions and big animals like that. There was also pre-human and early human rooms and I almost pooped myself when I saw the section on ützi the iceman because I learned so much about him in archaeology, cultural anthropology and newsworthy anthropology. However to my dissapointment they only had replicas of his tools. We also saw some rock type things and it was sort of cool and then my hear sunk because I'm not very excited for my geology class next semester. From there we crossed the street to a modern/contemporary/other kinds of art. It was ok, but I was kind of tired and hungry and not that impressed by some of the art we saw. There was a lot of good stuff but my stomach convinced my brain that I was having less fun then I thought. We also were not allowed to eat the food we brought in the museum cafeteria. Lame. So from the art museum we walked to a coffee shop and put some coffee in us to wake us up. Then we tried to go to the catacombs under the big gothic church in the center of vienna but it was closed. It was there Kent and Maggie bought tickets to the show they are currently at and I bought weiner something, which was really a hot dog, and ate. It was really good despite the fact that I was eating like a 8 year old. Then I struck out on my own back to the hostel. It's relaxing and I'm probably going to read for a little before kent and maggie return here, about 45 minutes from now, and we go to the beir garten (three guesses as to what that is in english and the first two don't count) for dinner. Vienna is a beautiful city and I'm sorry to be leaving it tomorrow. It is clean, the people are very friendly, I don't stick out like a sore thumb as much as Italy and Greece, and I cannot possibly do it justice with pictures although I'm trying really hard.

The two guys on the computer next to me think they can do Rome in a day. They could not be more wrong and stupid. Until next time (tomorrow morning), bye bye.