Happy Canada Day!

First things first. Congratulations Lacey, Lincoln is beautiful and I'm glad he finally came out on his own. Everyone else Happy Canada Day!

So to ease the tension of the last post we did end up getting a room. We got one for last night as well. The annoying thing was having to check out everday at 10am, stash our bags and check back in later. But, unlike a lot of people in the city we actually had a place to sleep the night of Eurocup 2008. It was on a Sunday (kinda weird), so that morning we got up really early to attend Sunday mass at the Hofburg Palace chapel and see the Vienna boys choir. They were amazing, and the cutest thing since sliced bread. You couldn't actually see them during the service, they were up on a balcony, it was a small church. It was free for standing room, but super hot and I've never experienced this before, but I had some sort of spell about 45min in. I was dizzy, which made me sick feeling and felt like I couldn't breath, so we had to leave. Once outside I was fine.

After recouping on the steps we walked to where the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was supposed to perform at 11am... Unfortunately it was cancelled due to the football :( It would have been an awesome show. We bummed around town for the day, saw some sights and outfitted ourselves as German fans for the evening festivities. Unfortunately Germany lost. Spain outplayed them incredibly. Everyone was in good spirits and there were no incidents we saw at least. Another funny thing to mention is we had dinner at the awesome Turkish place and there was this cute 11ish year old kid working there. Doing everything from folding napkins to working the bar, pouring drinks :P

Yesterday we went to KunstWeinHaus (aka. the Fairytale museum). It was built by and dedicated mostly to the works of Hunderwasser (I think thats how you spell it) a very environmentally concious artist from 1950 to about 2000. He also designed naturally harmonious buildings like schools and churches. The museum was cool. The floors were all uneven brick with non square windows etc. In the afternoon we checked out Schonbrunn Castle and wandered around in the extensive palace gardens. Its weird to see people going about a regular day in such a fantastic place. Kinda like Stanely Park, but the entire place is a manicured garden with statues and Roman ruins. Unbelievable. In the evening we went to the cinema and watched "The Third Man". Neither of us had heard of it before, but its a movie from the 50's set in post-war Vienna. There's actually Third Man tours here that take you to all the sights from the movie including the sewers. It was actually really good. We came back to the hostel afterwards and met some guys from Brown University and a guy travelling with them. Chatting in the lounge till 1am. We got our free drinks at the hostel bar (toasted to Canada day - it was after midnight) then went to find the place recommended by the people at the hostel. Unfortunately not a whole lot is open at 2:30am the Monday night after Eurocup. We were just giving up when we came across a Kebab stand (very common here) and he was selling 2 Euro beer (resonable for here) so we chilled out at his stand with a local guy (originally from Serbia I believe) we met in this whole process till about 5am. They were all good guys and the conversation was awesome. Haha so we paid for a hostel room we used for less than 5 hours, but we're still hanging around the place eating breakfast, taking care of laundry and using this computer ;)

At 1:52pm we're off on a train to Budapest. We have acquired an extra day or so so originally we were going to go to Bratislava, but have heard not good reviews from people, so we opted for Budapest instead, which people have raved about.

Well back to my domestic duties.

Adieu