vienna day 1 (tues-wed march 27-28)

Left the main station in copenhagen yesterday at 330. It was fun looking out the window and seeing Denmark. I'm reading My Sister's Keeper. Good book. We listened to a comedian on Elizabeths ipod. The train drove right onto a ferry. CRAZY! We had to get off. Amazing view of the shore of Denmark. TONS of neat windmills spinning around like crazy generating lots of clean energy. changed trains in Hamburg. We were in a car with sort of couches (three seated cushioned benches. Neither of us slept that well on the night on the train. Got into Vienna at 9AM. Erica, Elizabeth's friend, met us there. We went to the hostel and checked in. The room is nice. Kind of a room off of a shared bathroom and kitchen but our door locks. Erica had to go to class so she gave us a map and an idea of what to go and look at.
We had to take the metro into the center of Vienna. We had food at Nordsee. I had a baguette slice with a cream spread and salmon
We went to Albertina art museum saw another version of a piece in the Louisiana Museum of Art of a man who is sort of falling apart. It was supposed to represent Germany after WWI trying to be masculine but not. Lots of other fairly modern watercolors and studies for paintings. Some of them were upside down. Very cool painting of a hawk falling from the sky with lots of texture and action in the blue paint. We also saw some very nice watercolors of daily life painted by Peter Fendi. Lots of children doing stuff and families. We walked around in this part of the museum that was almost like a palace. chandeliers. Drawings by Michaelangelo. Finally we went to and exhibit called the Invention of simplicity. There were fancy chairs, tea sets, glasses with paintings of fish and butterflies on them, paintings of mountain scenes, some paintings of Copenhagen from Frederiksburg Slot.
We also walked around in St. Stephans Cathedral. Gorgeous stained glass very high ceilings.
There were stars in the sidewalk commemorating famous Austrians showing all the history wrapped up in the city.
We walked by a buch of gorgeous theatre buildings, the Rathus, and the Parliament. Lots of white and cream buildings here. Not much brick nor wooden buildings. Strange to hear German spoken everywhere.
Met up with Erica and Lauren (her friend). We went to a cafe and I had this really yummy pastry with a whole apricot inside and pastry around it with a crumbly sugar topping. Very yummy. I also tried a taste of Schnitzl (friend dough) and a taste potato egg omlettey type thing. They had interesting looking coffee with foamy milk on top but I'm not a huge fan of coffee so I didn't try it.
We played cards in the cafe for a while. The waiter was nice and offered to take our pic and wanted to know what we were playing. The cafe was a bit smoky but it was ok. Typical I guess.