Vienna

Vienna has the best zoo ever! Also I've decided that I seriously need a castle or a palace. It rained just about the whole time I was in Vienna which kinda sucked but it was really pretty. When I walked into my room I immediately knew it was full of guys. Why do they have to smell so bad?? I met two guys from England and we had some beer at the hostel bc none of us wanted to go out in the rain.

On Friday I found the hop on hop off bus and took that all over the place. They have a huge palace that I did an audio tour through which was cool. The Hapsburgs which I think we're the last royal family also have a heart vault in the city by the opera house. Creepy. I wanted to go but didn't have time. Also I think that's the family that Marie Antoinette is from. There is a maze by the palace but I didn't have time/money to go. I did however go to the zoo!! It was awesome. I've never seen a panda before and they had three! And they had rhinos and hippos!! The palace has this huge garden behind it and al these tree lined pathways. Gorgeous! I need one. I took the bus across town and went to the ferris wheel they have! It is really old and the cars you ride in look like a barn. Some of them have a table and fancy place settings so I guess you can have dinner or something in it. I don't really understand how that would work.

Back at the hostel there was a new guy and he was wearing wake forest shorts! He's the tennis coach at wake forest and he's out recruiting people to play there. All four of us went out last night and it was a bit of a disaster. The English guys had heard of another hostel that had a good bar so we took a taxi there. It was ok but the people there were weird. We had some drinks and did some shots and then went to some other bar. It had like rock music I think and so they vetoed that idea and I asked the bouncer where some good bars were and he told me some names but I wasn't paying any attention but I remembered the name of the square! They guys kept picking on me bc who asks a question and the doesn't listen. We got to the square and didn't see anything that looked like a bar! So I asked some guy walking by and he pointed in a direction and said some names but I still wasn't paying attention. The boys yelled at me again for that. We ended up at the sky bar which I remembered the guy had said! We had a Heineken for like 6 euro and it was just not a fun atmosphere. We had our expensive beer and left and tried to find another bar but we just decided to go back to our hostel and have a beer there. It was a fun night just not quite what we were all wanting!

I am on my way to Prague right now and depending on how long I stay there I am going to try and catch up with Colette in berlin! So that will be a ton of fun.

I was so hungry by the time I got to the train station that I felt sick so I just went to McDonalds. It was the most interesting mcdonalds I've ever been to I. This guy tried to fight someone riht outside and then like 15 min later he was trying to fight a girl. She tried to like roundhouse kick him but failed horribly I just could not stop laughing. It was like a real life MTV show. He was trying to fight someone else when I finally left. I felt absolutely terrible like I was going to pass out. I think it has been since initiation in our chapter room at ecu that I have felt like I wanted to pass out that badly. That was like 4 hours ago and now I finally feel like I'm not dying. I think I am just going to do laundry and drink lots of water and go to sleep early tonight! I thought my body was so dehydrated that it was just shutting down on me!

I'm not sure where we are right now but I am loving these train rides. Passing cows and lots of grassy hills and a river, it's just really pretty.

Seriously I need a castle.