Saturday.
We split up into groups and went to different shopping centers or areas around Vienna. My group went to the Mariahifer Strasse which is compared to the Magnificant Mile in Chicago. It was beautiful because you see tons of shops for miles then you look up and they are in all ancient buildings, totally european! We ate at a pizza place for lunch bc it was cheap and their pizza wasnt too good. We went to the Belvedere Palace, which was given as a gift to the General of the Vienna army that fought off the Turkish back in the good old days it was huge. And I dont remember if I wrote that friday we went to the Schonbrunn Palace, which is where Maria Antoinette grew up untill she later married the king of France. Then after the Belvedere we went to a huge amusement park, the Prater, in Vienna. They have like no regs on the rides so I was too chicken to ride them, but Dad I did get my first country patch! Its an Austrian one of course. Later that night Leah, a boy named Brett, and I got on the subway, the Ubahn, and road around to random places and got off and wondered around! We saw soooo much! It was neat but way different night scene than you would think. The people are very chill and calm but the drinking is heavy, we saw teens just walking around with beers! Scary! But then we got on a above ground train/bus because we hadn't riden one yet. It went into the outs of Vienna and stopped, we waited forever to go back to the city and then when we did we went to bed. What a long day!

Sunday.
Today was amazing. We got on the Ubahn and rode to Stephanplatz and went to the cathedral, Stephansdome. It was a huge gothic style building and absoluting beautiful. We went to catholic mass there and it was unbelievable, the choir was made up of trained professionals and the fact that the cathedral had been around since 1147 when it was built is just mind blowing. I really felt God in that place. Then as a class we went to a festival down the street to eat. It was a Thai festival with great food, my food was too hard to pronounce and really spicy! It had lots of red peppers, Mom! :) Then later we rode the Ubahn out to the end of Line 4, which is the purple line, to a town named Kahlenberg which was a little mountain village type place! We rode a bus to the top of the mountain and took pictures. Then we hiked down the trail through vineyards of purple and green grapes, Dad wine country! We stopped and had a devotional and communion half way down the mountain then made our way back to the village to eat. Leah, Allison, Ricki (whos a girl) and I split a dessert that was like a non sweet version of fried cheesecake fried but then covered with sweet vanilla sauce! It was Beautiful!! We bought fresh fruit, pears and apples, from a lady with a stand on the way down the mountain. I have had such a wonderful weekend, absolutely great. I have decided that I am going to go to the UK with some girls for fall break!