Half way done plus a trip to Vienna!

Once again it's been way too long since I've updated my blog. There is always something going on here to keep be completly busy and away from my blog. Two weeks ago we had a day trip out to Hallstadt. It's this tiny little town on a lake just and hour away from here and it was so beautiful. It's claim to fame is that it's one of the oldest towns in Austria. It was a great day, we stopped into a church that had a room filled with bones and skulls. Kinda creepy I must say, but it was interesting. We walked around town for a bit and looked in some of the shops and ended the day with a ferry ride around the lake! It was so beautiful. Just at the end of the ferry ride this wall of rain came through the valley. It was amazing, the day went from clear and sunny to a wall of rain and cloud coming our way. We ducked into a small cafe for some pastries adn by the time we got out the sun was back out! It was a great trip though, I'm glad I got to see it.

This past weekend marks the middle of Bible School for me and we had a travel weekend. I and 4 other girls decided to go to Vienna! It was a blast, aside from the minor train problems (a 4 hour train ride turned into a 7 hour train/bus ride) everything else went smoothly! We found our hostel no prob, and the U-Bahn was really easy to figure out. We went out on Friday night to the main shopping strip by Stephansplatz. There were tons of people out and enjoying the beautiful evening. We found nice little Italian restaurant and grabbed some Pizza and topped it off with a few ice creams afterwards! Saterday we spent the morning visiting the main sites. The Hofburg palace was huge, we didn't go inside though. Just outside it though there was a beautiful rose garden with rows of rose bushes of every colour imaginable. So naturally I took a ton of pictures because I love taking pictures of flowers! We had a nice little picnic in the park as well which was great, I loved watching all the tourists pass by. We saw the Parliment building, Stephansdom (a cathedral) and more importantly we found an H&M!! Our afternoon was filled with shopping, shopping and shopping! After all that shopping we treated ourselves t osome Applestrudels! It was delicious. Also while we were down near Stephansplatz we saw some guys breakdancing! It's the same guys that Laura talked about in her blog if you'd seen it already. They were amazing to watch.. I got some good pics! That evening we found an english theater and went to see Spiderman 3! It's been so long since I've been to the theater so I was pretty excited to see it. I haven't seen Spiderman 2 but I still thought it was pretty good. On Sunday we checked out the Schönnbrunn Palace and spent most of the day there. It was also quite huge with an awesome garden! It was sooo hot out, it was really quite nice. I hear that it wasn't the greatest weather in Winnipeg for a long weekend which is too bad. It was definately nice to get away from school for a few days but I'm glad to be back. This weekend we're heading to Mathhausen, it's a concentration camp in Austria not too far away from here. So I'm interested in seeing how that will go. Time is flying by here, I can't believe we're in our 5th week already.

Anyways, I hope that everyone is doing well and healthy back home!! Pics are coming soon, for some reason it won't allow me to download pics from this computer. Soon I promise!! Take Care :o)