Cleo Goes to Austria!: HHHHHHHAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLLLooooaoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well, now, what has been going on here?

I’ll tell you, they don’t lie when they say that one day it will click. I’m waiting on the german part to click, but culturally I feel awesome. I actually had a panic attack the other day thinking about how I was already in my 4th month and haven’t really EXPLORED a city that lies 30 minutes away from my house. So, to compensate I wrote a long (and it’s getting longer) list of all the places yet to be explored in Vienna. I don’t know If I’ll finish by the end of the year, but I’ll at least have scratched the surface. The list includes:

· A visit to the chocolate museum
· Eat my way through a menu at a café (not literally, of course I’m not a fan of digesting paper)
· Climbing up Stefansdom
· Visiting every district in Vienna
· Stopping at every stop on the u-bahn
· Take cooking/baking courses so I can eat sachertorte for the rest of my life
· Learn traditional folk songs

· And that’s only 7 of the manny things to do in Vienna.

S So. I gotta get in on that. An adventure a day. Let’s go.

Here are the pictures from the week!

More things: Perchtoldsdorf is so cool. so so cool. They have this harvest festival to thank God for the grapes to make wine. The history behind this particular festival is that a long, long time ago poor men worked to guard the vinyard from evil people trying to steal grapes.

One time one of the guards was beaten! And almost died! He was taken to one (of the maaaannnnyyy) heurigers (restaurants serving local food and wine- in P-dorf there are about 40 heurigers.) in P-dorf (whooh, sorry about all of the interruptions!) and was SAVED!

So now, every year there is a small parade that marches from that heuriger to the church and for the entire weekend people drink, eat and are merry.

HERE. is the Weihnachtsmarkt infront of the Rathaus. we were there for the opening, where they light up the tree, then the burgermeister sings or speaks, there's music, food, drink, things to buy, and lots and lots of people.