Vienna to Prague!

We woke up Sunday morning in Vienna and took the metro to the center of town to go see the Hoffburg palace and the Volksgarten by it. The gardens were beautiful. There were tons and tons of roses. There was a group of Asians doing Tai Chi in the garden. There wasn't much to see in the castle but the outside of beautiful. 

Tai Chi

The Hoffburg

There was some sort of private event inside the palace and there were police everywhere. 

Then we got breakfast at McDonalds...because McDonalds is always better in a foreign country...and because that is all we had time for. Then we got on the tram to go to church. We got off at the right stop but we had trouble finding the building at first. We were able to find the building just in time! We went to the German speaking ward because the English speaking ward was too late in the day for us. The people were really nice and welcoming. They asked us if we wanted them to translate for us but we didn't want to be a bother so we just listened in German and tried to sing along to the Hymns. :-) We sung "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel". It was so fun to sing that in German! :-) This adorable little Austrian boy gave me one of his pretzels. He was so cute! He had thick glasses and a Winnie the Pooh tie. Even though I couldn't understand a word anyone was saying I could still feel the spirit and I felt so at home. It was one of my favorite parts of the trip. After church while we were waiting to get back on the tram we talked with a father and his kids from the ward. The dad was from Vienna but served his mission in Mesa! Small world! He, his wife, and their kids lived in Provo for about 14 years. His wife is also from Vienna and they moved there family back there about a year ago. The oldest boy was a deacon and then there were 2 girls younger than him. They all speak fluent German and English. Pretty cool!

We went back to our hostel, got our bags and took the metro to another train station (not the one we came in on). While we were waiting for the metro we happened to run in to these people on a study abroad from ASU who were going back to Prague also. One of the guys was pretty cute but then he said they were mostly drinking the whole time they were there. I just don't get that. Why do you spend that much money to go this amazing country and then spend the whole time drunk. They can do that at home. 

After we got our train tickets we found some food. We found another middle eastern sandwich shop and had kebab's which is a middle eastern sandwich with Gyro meat. At least I think that is was it is. It was good. The guy that made mine tried to hit on me. He asked me where  I was from. I told him the U.S. and he said, "You speak Turkish?!" Then his coworker hit him on the shoulder and said, "No, no, no." It was pretty funny! While were waiting on the train platform we met this family (mom, dad, and their 2 girls who looked about 8 and 10 years old) from Virgina who were also traveling to Prague and then they are going to Salzburg and Obertraun and then back to Vienna. Very similar to what we did. :-)  They told us we looked like we fit in and we didn't look like tourists. He didn't think we were from the states at first. Awesome!!

Since I was sunburned we decided I needed a picture with this man, I really don't know what it says or what is is for, but we saw it everywhere. 

I gotta pee!

We look like sister missionaries! 

Once we were back in Prague we ate dinner at this Italian place sort of by our hostel. It was really good, but we didn't get enough food so I was still hungry afterwords. One of the dishes we got was 4 cheese penne. I told everyone I wanted to be buried in that sauce. It was that good!! We saw them making this dish that looked like spaghetti noodles with marinara sauce and then they dumped it on this big block of Parmesan cheese and mixed up the spaghetti as they scrapped the cheese from the block. It looked incredible! I want to try it! I think the restaurant was owned by an Italian family. The family was sitting at the table behind us doing bills or something of a sort. The cute little grandma kept talking to me in Czech...at least I think it was Czech, it didn't sound like Italian. I couldn't understand a word she said but she was adorable. 
We stayed at the Charles Bridge Economic hostel again this night...because that was our favorite hostel. I wish we could have stayed there the next night but there were no open rooms. :-(