Saturday, May 17, 2008

Royal Austrian Ballers

5.10.08

Our last day in Vienna was a long one. We started out by taking a local train to the Schonnbrun Palace. The palace served as a "a little summer home" that was in what was the country at the time. It seemed like it was only 10 miles away from their palace in the city. That's how the royal Austrians roll! The country palace was incredibly impressive even though much of the interior decoration and furniture is no longer there. The most famous residents were Queen Maria Teresa (mother of Marie Antoinette) and the beloved Sisi.




Brooke and I walked around the manicured gardens and lawns outside the palace, then toured the inside. The outside of the palace used to be pink! One of the male rulers was so desperate to get rid of the pink color, he used a two-tone yellow paint, the very cheapest color at the time. Yellow became the royal color in Austria, ever since then you have to get special permission to use it on the outside of a building.

This evening we went back to the same restaurant we ate at the first night, the one with the goulash. This time we both ate Wiener Schnitzel and shared a sacher tort. Sooo good!

After a really long day of walking around we wanted to get a good night's sleep, but we ended up only getting a few hours.... The bar located below our hotel room on the first floor had a ton of people coming in and out, shouting, screaming, and singing. Even the guy at the front desk of the hotel got fed up, and tried to keep people from lingering outside the hotel.

*Posted from Philadelphia airport, on the way back to Dallas