Tuesday, January 18, 2011

rundown

AIGHT

here's the rundown of Wien so far

-climbed a giant hill in salzburg and visited a castle
-visited mozart's birthplace (saw his first violin and his REDish hair)
-ate dinner at the oldest restaurant in central europe
-visited a couple bars/clubs in Salzburg
-visited Mathausen, a concentration camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp)
-ate, and continue to eat a lot of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_wafer)
as well as these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Bueno)
-saw two operas - Tosca and Lucia, and a ballet at the staatsoper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera)
-saw the vienna symphony play Brahms 2 and Rachmaninoff 2 at the Konzerthaus WHERE WE WILL BE PERFORMING (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzerthaus,_Vienna)
-chilled in mcdonald's with Langholz
-visited the vienna museum of fine arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Museum_of_Art)
-and the national library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library)
-went to high mass at augustinerkirche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustinerkirche)
they did the Schubert Mass in Bflat. BEAUTIFUL. even though everything was in german and i had no idea what was going on.
-ate some of this where it was invented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacher_torte)


and i still have almost two weeks left.
YAAAAAAAAAAY
dear wien, i love you. stay awesome.
dear USA, you're pretty cool, too. see you soonish.

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