Vienna

Last week we had our second day trip in groups of three again. I was with Lauren and Angela and we decided we really wanted to go to Vienna, Austria. We found out this would be our only opportunity to go so although it was complicated traveling, we thought we should try and make it work. We had to take the tram to the bus station. A bus an hour away to a train station, and then the train to Vienna. On the way back we had to take two trains and transfer somewhere in the middle. The hard part is that we had very short layovers pretty much everywhere so we were running from bus to train and train to tram and metro, etc. We left at 7 in the morning and missed our tram, then got off at the wrong stop twice and when we finally got off at the right stop realized the bus station was across a highway...so we sprinted to the bus and as soon as we got on the driver closed the door and we left. At the train station an hour later we didn't have time to buy tickets, so we got on the train hoping we could buy them onboard. We really had no idea what was going to happen when the conductor came around because we thought since it was international travel that we would get kicked off for not having a ticket but we were able to buy tickets no problem and it was cheaper. It was pretty funny though, somehow we made everything, but just barely. We were only there for about 6 hours so we decided to take a horse carriage tour to see most of the city, so that was a lot of fun. Besides that we just walked around and explored the city. Here are some pictures from Vienna


Here is the Hofburg palace in vienna, unfortunately there was a lot of restoration going on, so a good part of it was covered up, but it was still pretty cool to see


Corner statue on the palace


The dome on the inside of the palace


Streets of vienna


Stevens cathedral...I think that is the name but it might be wrong














Some of the architecture






Another church



Schonbrunn palace- unfortunately we only had about 20 minutes here because we had to catch a train, but this place was amazing. There are over 1300 rooms here and there are tons of acres of royal gardens behind the palace tht go on forever it seems like.





















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