Vienna is awesome!

Today is our first full day in Vienna! Yesterday when we arrived, after we checked into our hostel (hostel wombats!), we took the u-Bahn to St. Stephan's square. The exit of the u-Bahn puts us right out next to the church, so as we all came up the stairs we were awestruck by the most gothic cathedral I've ever seen! 

Then Dr. Powell pointed us in the direction of a pizza place that gave us all a quarter of a pizza for only €3! It was delicious and gave us enough energy to immediately climb up the 343 steps to the top of the tower for an amazing view. 

After our trek we went the other direction in the church down to the catacombs! The church dates from the 13th century and we saw some seriously old graves, along with creepy rooms full of bones. We also saw a room full of some of the first Habsburgs, who were embalmed and buried in 3 different places. Following the tour, our group split up and me, Alex, and Hannah wandered around for a while. We decided to wander back into St. Stephen's and see what it looked like after dark, and as soon as we got in there the bells started ringing! It was close to 7:00 and almost time for evening mass. We decided to hang around and see if the organ would be played, and just when we gave up and turned around the organ started playing! It sounded amazing and it was a very cool surprise. I got a recording of some of it but I'm not sure I can post it. Afterwards we found dinner at a restaurant called the Gutenberg, and I had Wiener schnitzel in Wien! I'm very excited to see what else Vienna has in store for us, since we have a tour tomorrow and the Vienna Radio Symphony!