Wednesday, January 13, 2010
I'm in Vienna
Well everyone I have finally made it to my last destination. I have been here about 12 or so hours and literally this is the longest day of my life. I have horrible jet lag. I slept on the plane from Indy to D.C. but not only like 30 minutes on the plane to Vienna. The plane was huge but I had no room and I felt very uncomfortable. On the plane to D.C. I had 2 seats to myself so I could stretch out a lot. There was one person doing IES on that plane. She is from Indiana also. Her name is Tia. Then we met up with 7 other people for the plane to Vienna. They played some movies like 27 dresses, Fame, Jungle Book and fun stuff like that. At first I was sitting alone by this lady I was trying to be friendly to and she was not having it, but then someone I met named Kaitlin was sitting by a man that was Austrian and he was willing to switch for me a Kaitlin to sit next to each other. He wasn't nice about but its fine haha. Kaitlin and I just talked the whole time and then another guy named Ben can up to talk to us for awhile. The whole plane experience was really weird. Some people were very friendly and some people looked like they wanted to kill you. Most spoke English but some didn't. After we got off the plane with got luggage and that took forever. Then the thing that took the LONGEST was getting from the airport to the train station by our hostel. The Westbahnhoff, it is pretty much the main train station. We all were cheap people and didn't want to spend 8 euro to save 15 minutes. We bought train tickets. Of course I bought the wrong one but we all figured it out. We thought at first that we would have to do the ticker process like in New York or Chicago where you swipe your ticket. That is not the case what so ever. It turns out if an official asks you for a ticker you need to show it to him if you don't have it then you are heavily fined. No one asked for our ticket on both trains, but we bought tickets anyway. It took us a good 40 minutes to an hour to get to our hostel and that is carrying 100 pounds of luggage up and down stairs and such. It was very tiring. We then were starving and ate at this local restaurant that took forever to get the bill. I feel asleep in the restaurant, but was woken up to get my food. It was really good. It was a wrap with steak, lettuce, pepper, and some really good dressing. It was cheap too. I then came back and fell asleep. It has been rough today haha. I will be going to bed soon again. It is after 10 o'clock here, and my clock is really really off. I will put pictures up later!!! Hope all is well with everyone. See you all soon!
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So glad to hear that you made it safely and have already met some nice people! Now get some sleep!!!
ReplyDeleteThrilled to hear that you made it safely...even though it sounds like it was DEFINITELY an interesting journey. :) Rest up...you are gonna need it!
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