off to austria - WESTSIDE

11/30/2009

Just left today for salzburg after kicking it in vienna for a few days after jess got here. good times re-exploring vienna. it never gets old goofing off around there in random palaces and "platz's".....but today got up at 630 in the morning and grabbed a train at 730, and during that time i also moved out of the hostel! so i am technically homeless, traveling from vienna, west through innsbruck to switzerland, and then on to paris, and then on to ireland to meet up with shane and amanda...and then...no not really. i think that's enough right? insano traveling. so about the homeless thing...when i get back i will be staying with saara on her futon for a week. i just dropped my stuff off there yesterday to store while im traveling. works out perfectly.

so its crazy how time has flown by. im amazed. this experience has been completely awesome so far. i've loved nearly every minute of it. I remember when i first showed up here...i actually thought these three months were going to go reallllly slow for some reason. i thought it was enough time. but now i dunno. i think i want to stay. still gotta rule it out, but im thinking so. sure, going home for xmas will be great and all, but at the same time im going to miss this place we call europe a lot. but what can ya do? i guess move back here and work later eh? possible...

well nevermind all that cause we are training to awesome places nonstop right now! yeah! jess is passed out with her mouth fully open. quite attractive. shes still working out the whole jet lag issue. its a problem i hear. not so much for me for some reason. but lemme talk about salzburg a little bit. its pretty dope. only takes a few hours to see. at the city center is a massive castle / fortress of destruction and warfare as i call it. anything that is called a fortress must be completely badass, right? as an archtitect, i think my first project will be to build a fortress as my home. it only makes sense. it will be complete with warriors, trebuchets (made from my stupid high school physics class), and arrow-holes in all the walls...but in a CONTEMPORARY design, of course. it will still dominate enemies constantly, they will just be contemporary enemies. yep. that's my first project. settled.

also saw where mr. mozart himself was born / where he lived his life. definitely historical...MOZART PLAYED IS LITTLE BABY VIOLIN HERE. crazy. and of course there are christmas markets here. they are insane for these markets / spiced wine. we are counted how many "gluhweins" we have while on this trip. its the popular thing to do...drinking them that is. they are just so delicious that we just cant get enough you know? so we are sip sipping on some gluhwein and climbing fortresses and dancing upon them in triumph. yes. we are so cool.

found this awesome little lunch place with some bomb goulash souuup! GOUUUULAAAASH. mmmm. what's nice about this stuff is that it also has some veggies in the soup. i've eaten like .2 servings of veggies this whole trip. ugh. GOUUUUULAAAAAAAAASH. yes. ok now its time to leave. innsbruck actions coming right up--but wait, before i go must do one more thing (apparently). run down to the river in salzburg and wash my face off in the crystal clear waters of melted snow caps? fo sho. ok. now time to go.

NOTE TO ALL: even though "the sound of music" was filmed around the area of salzburg, no one cares there. what's even wierder is that i care, and that i have seen the movie a million times. i guess that's how a sister can influence you. they do, however, have a bus tour for the sound of music. except, its 4 HOURS long. that's just insane. seriously, singing that stuff for four hours is ridiculous. so if you are ever in salzburg and you are really wondering about where the sound of music stuff is, now you know. 4 hour tour baby! yeah!