Back from Austria!

Hey, finally updating again.

So I went to Vienna for the 6th-10th of June. I went alone for the first time on a trip and I liked it a lot. First of all, travelling alone is quite different. I think everyone who has done that can agree with that. In some aspects travelling alone is better. When you travel in groups there always has to be a consensus as to what to see, where to eat, what to eat, where to go out, when to wake up, etc. The larger the group the less stuff you get done with more people needing to decide what to do. When you travel alone, you can do what you want when you want and where you want. That aspect gefällt mir gut. ;). The flipside is that going out and dinner etc. is harder because you are alone. Along my trip in Austria I met some pretty cool guys from Nevada. They were there for their summer Europe trip out of college. We all went to watch the football game for the World Cup and went drinking, eating, and touring Vienna. So I think travelling alone is fun, but it also relies heavily on who you are in a dorm with/meet at the hostel, and what city you are in.

Vienna has a lot of very cool buildings. They are not even important buildings - but everywhere you go, the detail and workmanship put into everything is amazing. I have a lot of good pictures of Vienna at my webshots website. http://community.webshots.com/user/markrcpde
At times I could barely take all the art in Vienna. It's just way too much. I went to an art museum showing Austria's best artists..... now I know why I haven't heard of them.

So yeah - I was going to a bar with the Nevada buddies... and there were like only 5 people in that bar, and when we went in, they were all staring at us. Us 4 entering were looking at each other wondering who they were staring at and why. I ask the guys who they're staring at after about 10 seconds. They say... We're staring at you? Why are you such an asshole?
At this point im baffled beyond belief. So im like Wtf... why? And they say Why don't you say hi to us? We know you from class.... And then it finally hits me. These are friends of my brother from Atlanta. I explain it and they finally get it and then we all have a few good laughs/beers after that. Seriously... who meets their brother's friends from college that they've never met in Europe in a random bar one night in Vienna.