Thursday, January 30, 2014

So much to do, so little time... left.

Wow, there are only 4 days left of this trip. It feels like we have been gone forever but also like we left yesterday.
There is a bakery across the street from our hostel!!! Guess where Hannah, Annalise and I went for breakfast… It was delicious! When we get back from this trip we will need to find a pastry and hot chocolate place to satisfy our needs. We may be getting addicted…
So today we went to the Haus der Musik and it is absolutely amazing!!! There were so many things to see and interact with! There was a room that sounded like the womb, a room to listen to different sounds through speakers on the wall, a room to create music and more! Oh, it was the coolest thing ever. I could have spent hours more that we did in there. We had to find lunch and meet our tour guide so we left and split to find food. My group got pizza from the same place we got it yesterday. Then we met our guide, Herbert Konrad, who was wonderful and great and knew a lot! On the tour we went inside St. Stephans cathedral again but this time to the roped off part and with a walking, speaking info brochure. Today we didn't go into the catacombs, but that was super cool and creepy yesterday. Next we headed through the town and learned some interesting facts while we walked to the Hapsburg Palace. The wind was bitterly cold and we were all happy when we went inside the palace. Queen Elizabeth (Sissi) was really fun to learn about. I also really like her hair… it was so long and curly! The tour ended there and we had just enough time to go back to the hostel and get a snack or dinner before the concert. I got a snack. The trip on the U-Bahn was faster than anticipated so we had a little extra time to make sure we knew where we were going… to the Konzerhaus. Oh my, this concert was great! Mouthpiece XX was……. Interesting, to say the least. Check out others' posts for more about this. Then the Prokofiev piece was amazing with Tzimon Barto on piano. Look at Hannah Eger's blog post to hear more about him, I'm sure. The Brahms 4 piece was gorgeous but by that time I was getting sleepy and my mind was racing so I didn't quite "hear" all of it. Over all this day was super successful I'd say.

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