Free Travel!

It's crazy to think that the last time I posted was on Sunday. I don't feel like it's been that long. This week has been a crazy one. We've been to about 5 or 6 churches this week, and I can't keep one straight from the other. I've seen Baroque, Renaissance, Ricoco, and just about anything else you name and I'm just ready from a break for a little while. Wednesday we had to go to three (yes, three) different gardens around the area. Each of them were beautiful in their own special way. The first one is a park that I love. It's very family oriented, lots of trees, and it reminds me a little of Hafer at home. The second one was BEAUTIFUL (there will be pictures on Facebook soon). It's a flower garden with flowers literally everyone. The third park was gorgeous when I walked in. It has a statue of Mozart with flowers in the shape of a huge treble clef in front of him, but the rest of the park wasn't too great. So I'm sure in the next few weeks I will be visiting those parks and gardens again just to get some alone time and to get a break from the crazy life. On Wednesday we also got to go to Schonbrunn palace, which was freaking awesome. I've never been to a palace before so that was a first. They have a billion rooms and each one was decorated differently, it was amazing. And to think, this was just the Habsburg's summer home... I couldn't imagine having it for any home. We got to explore the gardens all around, and the maze. Then we came to the hike up to the Gloriette. Let me tell you, that was quite a trek... Here's a pic...

Yes, I climbed all the way up there. But it was totally worth it. I paid 2 euro and 20 eurocents to get to the top of the gate too, but boy it was worth it. I could see all, literally all of Vienna from up there. See...

Oh and there's the back of the palace too. Pretty awesome huh? Yesterday we did some random stuff then we went to a free concert at the palace. Last year there was 100,000 people there, and I'm sure there were that many, if not more there last night. It was crazy, but it was awesome. Today we visited the cemetery here. Doesn't sound too fun at first, but Beethoven, Strauss, Brahms, and a few other famous composers are buried here so it was pretty cool. And since we got back around 2:30, I've been getting stuff ready for free travel this weekend. We're headed to Geneva, Switzerland tonight, then Sunday we're going to Paris and Versailles, then on Tuesday we're heading home but making a pitstop in Salzburg for the Sound of Music tour! :) Super excited! Please pray for safe travels for all the groups traveling this weekend. I'll do my best to update you when I get back, if not while I'm there. Peace out!