Wien: Day Two

So we woke up on Friday, March 18th feeling pretty great about Vienna. It was a seriously rocking town, and we had just seen an awesome symphony the night before. That morning I shopped around for a bit and found a really cool soccer jersey for the Austrian National Team (I love Austria!) and then had another amazing lunch. Then we took off to the Musuem's Quartier. On the way there we passed some cool stuff

Yes.


One of the many theaters in town (not for movies, for acting)


The Museum of Modern Art


Inside the Musuem of Modern Art


Another building in the Museums Quartier

We found information about a Piet Mondrian Exhibit and headed to go see it. Along the way we passed through this really cool park.

An awesome park in Vienna, one of many


Stautes like this covered the park and the city


Another cool building near the park, this one from the late 1800's

The entrance to the gallery is on the left. This picture really shows the contrast in various ages of architecture in the city

We went to the exhibit, which was really cool, and it turned out that we were able to see two other nice exhibits while we were there. One was a photography exhibit, another was a christian artist who had painted a whole lot of illustrations for churches in modern art style. It was pretty neat.

The main atrium in the musuem, another example of the cool contrast of old and new in Vienna


A typical staircase, but this shows the simple elegance that characterizes Vienna

From here we headed out to the U1 to go see the Danube river which we figured would be cool. We were right.

The plaza on the way out of the gallery


The riverfront


One of three river crossings through the city. Click to view a big version.


Penguins? A cool billboard I saw near the river

From here we headed back towards the Opern Ring, and on the way went to Viennas most famous restaurant (that was the name of the place) and got some awesome Schitzel. We passed cool stuff on the way...

The Wiener Tram


A cool restored old building


WIENER SCHNITZEL!!!

Ok seriously that shnitzel was big enough to feed three people, but of course each of us ordered one and we all finished it. Bellisima! So on the way out we headed toward a movie theater, we figured we'd see if we could catch a film just because we hadn't had any americana in a long time, but they didn't have a show in english until 9PM which would get us home a little after midnight and we had to leave the hotel at 5AM... so we decided to just chill. We went and got some Austrian food and drinks from the local market and hung out in the appartment for the evening, then went to sleep to get a little rest before our rediculous train journey the next day.

The sun setting in town

Our last view of the Wiener Leinen Station

That basically ended our travels in Vienna, which I have to say makes me pretty sad. Vienna was so cool, but we'll get into more details on that later. Thus ended Vienna Day Two.