Pictures from Vienna

Hello! It's been a while. In this past couple of weeks I've been going to class, going shopping, partying, cooking, spending time with my roommate, chatting online with Alex, and I also spent a weekend in Szeged which is a city in southern Hungary. Anyway, before I post pictures of my daily life in Budapest, let me finish updating everyone on my previous travels. Today's pictures are of when my mom and I went to Vienna, Austria.

The streets of Vienna. Vienna was one of my more favorite cities we visited to. It was beautiful, but in the wealthy and clean kind of way, especially with all the palaces, extravegant buildings, museums, gardens, and etc. It seemed like a touristy kind of city for rich and "refined" people, but it's a beautiful city nontheless.

They have really mini Zenia-sized cars in Vienna.

Where do they fit their groceries?

Unfortunately, we're in Europe during the time where snow just ended and spring is still a while away. Ths means that all the gardens look scary and bare. I think this is Volksgarten, which is a huge park/garden and I imagine it to be incredibly beautiful during the summer. I don't know what those things are that they wrapped up, but I think it's to protect them from the rain? A lot of things seemed to be wrapped up like that in Vienna.

I don't know what this is, but it's a building in the garden.

Mr. Mozart himself.

I made my mom take this picture because I thought it was funny.

We ended up going to the music museum and weaponry museum and it was AWESOME. The picture is not the music/weaponry museum.. but the natural history museum I think. Anyway, it was really cool to see the original instruments that great composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden, and etc. played. They also had the weirdest instruments from the 15th century. Can you believe it, they had portable pianos back then. And then the weaponry one had freaking old gun sets, weird armor such as ones shaped like women's dresses, and lots of scary odd-shaped knives. I couldn't take a pictures though because it seems they have guards in every corner. I tried to sneak one of this armor with knives on it and it came out blurry.

We got to visit and tour the Habsburg family's summer home, Schonbrunn Palace. It has 1441 rooms for Maria Theresa and her 16 kids and all their sets of servants. So as you can imagine, the rooms looked spectacular (no photography allowed). Very, very extravegant. It was cool to see some rooms that were very "east meets west" since Maria Theresa was a big fan of Asian art she would incorporate a bunch of Chinese porcelain and art into the whole decor of some rooms.

This is one of the sides of the square.. That's where all the servants would stay.

This is part of their garden... Again, it's bare and gloomy because it's not spring/summer yet. There's also a garden maze off on the side where you can run around in your oversized dress and flirt with cute princes of other nations.

And we finished the night with some dessert at Cafe Sacher, which is supposed to be home to the world's most famous Sacher Torte (it's in the middle). It tasted like a rich chocolate cake with some fruitiness and spices to it.