I Feel Like That Guy From the Travel Agent Ad..

HOLA!! Yes I know, that is a different country but it is still fun to say! Okay.. Lets see. SOOO the past 2 days have been completely amazing. Like mind-blowing amazing. It feel so surreal. I see all these buildings that are just so beautiful and stunning that it literally makes me speechless. I find myself having to go up to them and maybe touch the wall or something just to make sure that it is not an illusion. 
So yesterday I chilled out at Sophie's house in the only item of clothing I had. For those of you who don't know Sophie is my great aunt, who lives in Canada, sister's, who lives in Vienna, family friend. :) get it?? I had the most lovely breakfast with her sister. Their bread here is so good! And I waited for her to get home from school at like 11.30! School is so short here! Then she let me wear the most amazing pair of jeans. I fell in love. And she took me shopping! Yay! The clothes here are so nice. Not cheaper. Not more expensive. But they are so nice and different. Once we got home from shopping I attempted to watch the Austrian version of Shortland Street. I actually almost even knew what was going on! Soaps are all the same. Doesn't matter what country or language. So that pretty much sums up that day. 
BUT TODAY! Holy moly. So I woke up crazy early. Had another amazing breakfast. It was this bun that is SO hard. Like if you threw it at someone it could severely injure them. But you cut it open and it is so soft and delicious! Then a great Skype with the fambam! Where me mom told me how since my luggage has been missing for more that 12 hours they will refund me up to $1000 NZD for any clothes I buy!! So I am so excited to go on a shopping spree. :D And since Sophie had homework to do I set off on the open road all on my loansome! It was amazing. And I only got lost once! Pretty much, my plan was walk.. then when you see some amazing landmark building go to it. I somehow managed to find like all the main tourist sites. This is where the 'feeling like the guy from that travel agent ad' comes in. It is that one when he goes around the world and he takes that same photo of himself with only the background changing?? Yea.. That was me. Most of them are up on Facebook so go have a look! I went to this huge cathedral looking thing first. I never did find out what it was.. Then right across from it was the Hofburg Theatre which was amazing. So then following my extremely elaborate plan, I saw the huge gorgeous uni building, walked towards that. Then I saw this huge other cathedral that had two pointy things.. what are they called?? Now this one you could actually go into and explore! So I had a good time in there. Feeling like I was in some DaVinci Code movie.. Took 5 million pictures. Sat down and decided to look at the map for once. So I make this awesome plan on the map. I walk out of the Cathedral and get immediately lost. Stupid maps. I should have just stuck with my first plan. So I was getting hungry and was freaking out a little bit thinking, okay.. how do I order any food?? I try getting a frankfurter at this stand but she just talks German at me and I am like umm..... Then I remembered this Starbucks we went to yesterday that had English speaking people. So I got all keen and decided that was my pitstop. So going with plan A again, I walked and walked and walked and ended up at the Hofburg theatre again! Excited to see something familiar I keep walking. Then get lost again. Then find myself on the map.. then get lost again. Then decide to just start walking using me gut to tell me where to go and I do and I found this stunning museum! There were like twin museums right across from each other. To my surprise I look across the street and see the Hofburg Palace from yesterday!! So I walk through it and find the shopping place and go crazy there! First off, I am still starving so I high tale it to the Starbucks where I had the best sandwich, cookie and drink EVER. Sorry NZ Starbucks. You ain't got nothing on Austrian Starbucks. While I am sitting there drinking away, getting excited b.c there is a North American sitting behind me speaking English and I can understand what he is saying, I was looking out the window and saw this, I am assuming homeless guy asking people for money. I was there for about 20 minutes and not one person gave him anything. It was sad to see. But anyway! Knowing me, I had to pee. I go to the toilet and the stalls have blacklights.. so anything white you are wearing glows!! It was interesting.. :D Next stop! The Opera House. You had to pay to go in so I just walked around it and went in the gift shop :) 
Okay. Now it is shopping spree time. Boy did I shop til I dropped! My favourite part was pretty much pretending that I spoke and understood German.. Only ever saying Hallo and Danke. :D I am such a good fake Austrian. The shop people would like rattle off this German to me and I'd just nod.. By now I'm pretty sure I couldn't feel my feet anymore so it was time to go home! Using my slightly photographic memory that I LOVE. I found my way back home. And using my guessing at what German words say.. I found a grocery store and bought my first Austrian chocolate!! I am excited to try :) (Courtney E... its Milka.. ) The til lady asked me a question and I felt like I was in the movies saying, English?? XD So I get to the house and open the front door and THERE WAS MY SUITCASE!!!! WOO!! So now I have more clothes then I know what to do with. That is a good problem. :) Until next time! Auf Wiedersehen!