To all of you that have written comments, I have no idea how to write back! I am sorry! I love getting and reading them, i am so sorry if you dont get a reply..
Friday:
The weekend started with looking for a football. Richy, Bruce (his name is Bryce, but our german teacher kept accidentally calling him this in his funny accent and he now is stuck with it), Karly and I went clear across town and finally, after wandering for a very long time, we found the Vienna Vikings store. Football is definitely not a big sport here.
On Friday night we went on a train to Neiderosterrich (lower austria) to a tiny lds chapel for an lds singles get together. Our group made up most of the singles. We had an Austrian BBQ: Bratwurst, steak, crazy salad, and bread. After we ate we had a football (soccer) game in the church's field. Brag moment: I scored four out of the six goals for our team. (I am very very proud of this, considering i havent played soccer in years!!!) Hah enough of the big head... We stopped by Tichies for Gelatto on our way back. It was amazing..
After ice cream, a few the austrian singles took a group of us to Q, one of the dancing clubs.
It was very fun, but I could not stand being in club for very long because of all the smoke! Everyone here smokes! One of the running jokes now is that at least one of us is going to develop lung cancer from this study abroad.
Saturday:
I woke up smelling smoke and realized that it was my hair and skin. Everything, especially my jeans, reeked of smoke! After showering and trying to get the smell out of everything, Karly and I went to the park with some of the local austrians and played volleyball and then went to a young man from austria's baptism. I was very neat to see the church working the same way across the world (except for the fact that it was all in German, and then had a table full of delectable European desserts.)
Sunday:
I will write about sunday's in Austria on a later blog, this one is already too long.
Monday:
Karly, Richy, Danielle, Bruce, and I set out at 9:00 to find this hike to an underground lake. The ride to the starting point was only supposed to take 30 minutes, but we had some complications. While we were on the train, a man came around to check tickets. I didn't think anything of him, until I saw him talking with Karly and Bryce and I could tell that something was up. Richy and I didn't want to get into any kind of trouble, so we casually got off on the next stop. Come to find out, he was just charging them 1.70 for passing through two stops past the boundaries from where our monthly transportation pass ends. Rich and I decided to walk the rest of the way, which was only one stop. It turned out to be very beautiful. We had fun taking pictures by hanging the camera on branches, and taking other fun pictures. I felt bad for the other three waiting for us!
This one's for you Jord:)
Don't mess
We laughed very hard at this one, i think i got a couple of Rich's excited hands to head from this one. We look like monkeys in the jungle!
Rich and Karly, waiting for the bus. We had some intense card games going on between these two! Every minute they had they were playing.
It was Pentecost monday, and because this is a catholic nation, the whole country slows down. We had to wait an hour for the bus to take us to the starting point, and then when we got there we had a little surprise waiting for us. The hike was not really a hike. It was a 9$ tour of a mine that hit a spring in the late 1900's, got flooded, and then was used by the Nazis as a concentrations camp, building planes. We decided to try it, and it actually turned out very neat, it just wasnt the intense hike I was looking for, walking around with a bunch of retirement home, site seeing across europe, old, americans.
5 comments:
Okay, this maybe a stupid question, but is that a Judd? Is Richy or Ricky or whoever that read head is, a Judd? He looks like one if he isn't.
Okay Taryn, in order to return comments, you can either leave a comment on your own blog to answer questions, or you can click on the name of the person that left you their comment and then go to their personal blog.
Or you can just email me at
erin.anytimefitness@gmail.com and tell me if that is indeed a Judd...I'm dying to know.
PS, I love you!
Taryn oh my gosh you look like your having so much fun!!! Love you tons and be safe and have fun!!!
Ya Taryn just click on comments at the end of your post and type your comment.
Cant believe how much you look like your mom in your pictures! Have a wonderful adventure! Looks like you are doing great!
Taryn, that is so cool that you are in Austria. I love that place, I was there in 99' and the entire time it rained. This is Ash by the way. I'm so glad that you are having fun. Be safe. I love you.
TARYN!!!! Yea, it's your very sick and pregnant Aunt Barb! I am so Happy for you! It is so weird to hear you talking about the U-bahn (you spelled it diff than we did in Deautchland). I am excited you may learn some german. We can sprechen when you get back.
Okay,"So you think you can dance" is back on and we can't help, but think of you! They are doing try outs in Salt Lake!!! Bet you will know a lot of the people trying out.
Hope you love Mirabella gardens as much as I did! And you have to go to this castle where, well, you will have to wait and see..teehee...it is called Hellbrun Castle or Schloss Hellbrun and the Wasserspiele (that kinda gives you a hint). It is in Salzburg (one of my fav cities!) Also, you must go to the Hallein salt mines. They have a little ride through the mine and do a suprise picture; it's not Disneyworld, but it's fun.
Okay, the only reason you think people are spitting at you when talking is because you took Spanish for 8 years!! Uh, hello Spain! Don't get me started!
I am surprised that you find the Viennese not friendly. I thought everyone in Austria was so pleasant!I wish you could see it at Christmas-so beautiful!
Yes, Europeans smoke like crazy! It is the one thing I hate too. It is everywhere. When I lived there, people could smoke on the planes-it was awful!
Well, I wish we could join you this summer!! This baby didn't want to wait that long. Hugs, kisses, and love to you!!
ps. How's my boy, Jesse??? ; )
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