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| Entrance to Schonbrunn |
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| The Ballroom |
We started our morning by going to an enormous palace called
Schloss
Schönbrunn, the summer home for the Habsburg
family. We walked easily more than the distance of a block once we got off the
trolley next to what looked like just a normal two story business building but
about half way past us our professor told us that the building we had been and
were still walking past was the servants quarters which should have given us
some estimation of how large this palace was but I don’t think anything could
have prepared me for the size of this building. The palace has 1,441 rooms but
only 40 of them are accessible to the public, it took us about an hour and a
half (if not more time) to cover those 40 rooms, that is just shy of 3% of the
palace that we got to see. Most of the rooms just seemed large, unnecessarily
large, but the most amazing room in the house was the ballroom. There were
enormous and incredibly elaborate paintings on the ceiling, gold plated
decorations on the walls and ceiling, floor to ceiling windows, gold
chandeliers hanging from the ceilings with flickering candles in them, candle
holders on the walls, and beautiful wooden floors. The palace itself was
gorgeous but the ballroom itself left quite the impression with me.
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| View from the top of St. Stephens Cathedral |
After we went to Schonbrunn,
Cody, Morgan, Elliot, Dr. Moser, and I went to climb the tower in St. Stephens
Cathedral. There were 343 steps in a spiral staircase to get to the top of the
tower but the views were definitely worth it, even the view of the roof of the
Cathedral was spectacular. Once we were done taking pictures of the view of
Vienna we went to a small café right down the street from the Cathedral and got
some pastries and coffee and chatted and made goofy faces at each other. After
that we went back to the hotel to hang out for a little bit before we went to
dinner. Dinner tonight was Turkish food
in the Turkish district of Vienna. I had a Doner sandwich. It had calf meat in
delicious bread, with lettuce and tomatoes. After dinner it was time for
another relaxing night at the hotel.
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| The roof of St. Stephens Cathedral |
More tomorrow, stay tuned!
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