Vienna

Remember this phrase: Die Rechnung, bitte, it will save you 2 hours at any given restaurant.

Here are all the wonderful things you are missing:

Live piano music wafting over our cafe as we ate dinner.
Huge mugs with 1L of beer.
Friendly natives escorting us to the beer.
Nice hot sunny weather.
Vienna festival, 200 band members giving a free concert in the park.
Ripped breakdancing men.
Beautiful architecture.
Striking, well dressed women.
Nicole's sophisticated sense of humor (read potty mouth) appreciating the German word for Vienna - Wien(er).
Zara (Michelle's favorite store, don't worry Kris we haven't let her in - yet)

And wonderful surprises that make Europe different than Canada, such as topless girls in thongs laying on the palace lawn (Vienna) sunning. As Shannon said best "WHOA" (note to selves: universal translation for 'Whoa' is 'Whoa'). Grown men with backpacks full of flowers cycling down the streets of ancient Salzburg. Cello players entertaining shoping pedestrians. Amazing markets with a plentitude of fresh picked produce (strawberries). Fast, efficient trains. Beer that is cheaper than pop, found everywhere. Even MacDonalds.

Tomorrow will find us hanging at the Summer Palace in Vienna.

We are all alive and happy in Austria! Have to catch early train this morning, no time to actually post here but rest assured that the y key on this keyboard is not where it ought to be.

Todaz we leave for Vienna. Guten Tag.

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