Thursday, June 09, 2005

Vienna

So I left for Vienna at 9 pm on tuesday night. Got in Vienna about 4:30 am. I wasn't planning on getting a hotel room since it gets light at 4 in the morning here. But I didn't really sleep well on the bus and was in a really weird mood since I got on the bus. So I walked outside the bus station and looked for a hotel nearby. There was one across the street, looked expensive but it was close and I was tired so I walked to it. It was closed. Closed. How is the lobby to a hotel closed? So I look up and down the street trying to figure out what to do next and I see another sign that says hotel. It's open. Yay! I go in and talk to the consierge. He didn't quite understand why I wanted a hotel room and 5 in the morning by myself. I said I'll be gone by 9am. 10 at the lastest. He probably thought I was crazy, but o well. It was totally worth the *gag* $60 USD. When I woke up I had to call Vern from the desk phone cause my cell phone wasn't working. So I got some information about sites and tourist stuff from the front desk. I asked him what did I really need to see in Vienna if I'm only here less than 24 hours. He sold me a ticket for a bus tour that pionted out all the historical and classical stuff. In english too. While on this tour I befriended a fella from New York who was on vacation with his parents. Peter's mom was from Slavakia so they were spending a few weeks there and this was a side jaunt for them. I told him how/why I was here. He told me I had balls. I guess I do have some kahunas. But I never really thought about it. Learned a little bit about the Hapsburg family and Austrian history on the tour. The tour ended about 1 o'clock and my bus didn't leave for another seven hours so I just kinda walked around the city went back to a couple places that we just drove by on the tour to get a closer look and stuff. But it was frickin freezing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was only like 54 degrees farenheit. It kinda put a damper on things. Vienna is really international. I had know problem finding my way around or asking directions. Everyone from the city speaks about four languages. Then most everybody else is tourists from all over the world so. Speaking only English was no problem. Went to the bus station in enough to time so I could be stingy and get two seats for myself. Most people had two to themselves but if you get there to late you have to share with someone who gets pissed off because they did get there early. So got on the bus tried to sleep didn't sleep too much. Kept being woken up at every border. OK makes sense that's alright. Got back to Katowice about 4 this morning and went straight to sleep. It's still freezing!!!!!!! It's about 4pm and it's still frickin freezing. Whose blasted idea was it to come to a more northern country where it'd be cold in summer? O well Greece is in two weeks!! It better be warm.
Muah

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