last day with lizzie

for our final day of adventures, liz and i hit the leopold museum to check out the edvard munch and gustav klimpt exhibitions. these guys are pretty famous artists, so we spend a few hours there checking out their work and staying out of the rain (because it wasn't snowing anymore...not as fun). after staring at artwork for a while we were pretty focused on eating food, and there was a great desire to eat bread and cheese. we had about an hour until we were going to meet up with Sebastian, a friend that was on exchange at our high school back in the day...so we hit the Naschmarkt, a super ultra long outdoor market that sells all kinds of random fresh food and drink, and clothing that looks like it comes from mexico. we were gonna buy bread and cheese there but we didnt have much time to enjoy it, so we bought instead the wierdest things we could find in a display case-- cheese-stuffed tomatoes (i think it was cheese) and fish wrapped spanish olives................hmmmmm. oh ya and 1 euro mini bottles of wine for each of us. haha. that was an experience. quickly ate the food there (FISHY, by the way...ughhh) and then drank our wine on the way to meet Sebastian at the operahouse. the weather was still cold and rainy but we loved it. liz was really enjoying just being in the atmosphere. its a good, temporary change from LA. its probably 90 degrees there right now.

anyways, met up with sebastian at starbucks (figures)...and then i was off to school for a little bit, leaving them to catch up for a couple hours. after taking care of dumb school things, we all met up again and went to an awesome czeck bar that served unpateurized Pilsner Urquell beer. pretty cool actually. talked with sebastian for a long time about high school, politics, religion, austria, the EU, the future, etc. it was awesome. although sebastian and i didnt know eachother well in high school, we remembered eachother for sure. it was just cool to see what's happened to someone in the last seven years, you know? he's studying business and law right now in vienna. not bad at all....

after a few strong beers it was definitely time to move. currently there is a student protest going on in vienna. students are upset about the current conditions in the education provided by the government. if you didn't already know, college is pretty much free here (i should have done my masters out here instead of getting a ton of loans in the US). even though it is free, students feel that they are not getting much from it. i can see that. the facilities here at the applied art school SUCK. and no one is organized. its pretty awful at times. so i can see why they are kinda pissed. so anyways, we went to Wien University and checked out the protest. there were tons of people there listening to someone speak...pretty cool. checked the library and some other buildings as well. and then it was time to bid sebastian goodbye. he had a ton of work that he had just put off for four hours. after, liz and i finally got our wish to eat bread and cheese, but it definitely wasnt the best bread and cheese, because all the stores were closed at this point. EXCEPT the one grocery store by my hostel in the subway station. haha. a ghetto little place, but it has bread and cheese nonetheless. took it home, along with like 8 chocolate bars for liz to give as gifts... :). went back and ate our fill until my heart wanted to stop beating, and then we hit the sack for the final night. (by the way, i got a second blanket from our renters and this was life-changing for us in terms of sharing a twin bed!). we couldn't sleep, because it was kinda early, but we knew we had to get up at 5:30 to get liz to the airport in time. so we laid there, like sardines again, but warm ones this time, talking a bit and starting at the ceiling. AND THEN THE ALARM WENT OFF. ugghhhh. so early! took liz to the train station and then went straight back to bed for four hours. Liz was off to Madrid, and our adventures were over. but it was definitely an awesome three days!

now i have a lot of school work to do. i havent done anything for a week. and we leave for our rome roadtrip in a week from now. haha.