My Exchange to Austria!: Vienna Weekend!

Last weekend the weekend of the 16th, 17th, and 18th (and plus Friday), all the exchange students in Austria traveled to Vienna!! On the first night we went to the Vienna Opera House and watched an opera, it was a very cool, but really hard to understand. ( It was in German). All of us got dressed up and looked amazing for the opera!

Here I (far right) am with friends before we head off to the opera. From left to right we have Maria from Arkansas, Kennedy from Canada, Jade from Canada and me, from Colorado.

After the opera, that lasted about three hours we headed to a nearby Chinese restaurant .And also I should tell you that exchange students from Hungry also joined us for this weekend! All in all I believe we were 130 students walking the streets of Vienna.

At the Chinese restaurant! Hayden, the boy in the middle is one of the exchange students from Hungry!

Saturday! This was a super cool day and Rotary took us all sorts of places.

Let the day begin! This is one of the super cool buildings surrounding the town center or the old city.

Some of the North Americans posing in front of a cool statue. There are exchangers from Austria and the ones living in Hungry. And also a couple of Canadian photo bombers.

Statue of Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, outside of Parliament.

Getting ready to explore Parliament house!

Playing a complicated game where you have to untangle everyone, while waiting for our tour through Parliament.

Parliament staircase

One of the great rooms in the parliament building

If you look closely you can see that the last two columns are a different shade. This is because they were replaced from being destroyed by war. A bomb was dropped into that corner destroying them. Though the pillars came from the same block of marble, as time wears on the color changed.

The old room where Parliament used to vote and make decisions. It is no longer in use, and there is a net stretched across the ceiling in case anything falls!

Actual Parliament room.

All the flags from the provinces of Austria.

Athena with the sun shining this time!

After exploring the Parliament house we headed through the city for lunch and then to Stephans Platz. In Stephan Platz there is a Vienna's largest church! And then from there we headed to Schön Brunn, a castle just outside of Vienna.

Votiv Kirche, from a distance

Cool Horse statue

The library

The church!

Inside is wow!

Looking back at the Church

A golden eagle flying high!

The castle!!! Unfortunately you are not allowed to take photos inside otherwise....

Shopping

The hats had faces!

Vienna streets!!

Little bit of culture, this was a shop I learned about in Spanish class last year and now I get to see it in person.

Night life

Amusement park in Vienna at night

Go karting

All the horses lined up for carriage rides

Spanish Riding School sign. The Spanish riding school is a world known riding school for Lipizzaner horses and they perform all sorts of cool things!!