vienna

So there’s more to Vienna than just balls and although we arrived Saturday morning and left Sunday afternoon we were able to squeeze in some time in to check out the sights. Ill prepared for sightseeing we decided to take the European approach and just wander around.

We wandered into the Neues Rathaus where there happen to be ice skating in front of the beautiful building. The day was clearing up so we figured why not, laced up (well the skates for my childlike feet didn’t have laces, they had the ice skating equivalent of Velcro which also happens to me when I rent bowling shoes) and Dan proceeded to zoom around the rink with annoying agility whilst I trudged along practicing how to skate backwards much to the dismay of any unfortunate soul behind me.

Our ice skating adventure ended in my final attempt to push Dan over (like I said, his agility was really annoying) causing me to fall over into a large puddle (it was a bit warm for outdoor ice skating) in a classic “serves you right” moment.

Other Austrian activities included admiring the fine architecture of kaffeehaus (coffee house) whist figuring out if the sashaying waiter was wearing makeup:

Eating sacher torte and wiener schnitzel and snickering at all the stops on the metro that ended in “gasse”.

Vienna’s cool and wish I had more time to check it out. Especially the gasometer.