HEY. I'm finally finishing writing about my week-long trip! Haha. So our fourth and last stop was VIENNA, Austria. We got there Friday night and stayed until Sunday afternoon when we flew back to Iasi. Being in Austria made me a little homesick and wishing that I was there with my dad since he speaks German and my Oma was born in Austria, but it was so fun being in a place where my heritage comes from.  

On Saturday, we went to the Schonbrunn Palace, which is from the 18th century and has 1,400 rooms. So it's huuuuge. It also has a lot of land surrounding it with gardens, fountains, and statues. It was so pretty! When you get there you pay for each area that you want to go tour. We chose the gardens and the maze. The gardens were so pretty! The maze wasn't too exciting, and took us about 5 minutes to get through haha. But it was still fun! 

After the palace, we were going to go into the main part of Vienna to walk around, but we got a little lost on the way haha. We were trying to use public transportation, but the maps were a little hard to read and we ended up going the wrong way and getting completely confused. By that time we had to head back to our apartment because we still needed to figure out how to print out our tickets for the Mozart concert we were going to that night as well as get ready. Luckily, we found a hotel that let us use their computers to print them out and we found our way into the main part of Vienna. We walked around for a little bit, saw Mozart's house, and went inside the St. Stephen's Cathedral. For dinner, we went to this really good Italian place called Vapiano's! It was a really cool concept. They give you a card and you go up to the different cooks and tell them what you want and you watch them make it, then they add whatever you got onto your card and you pay at the end. The food was so good! We also met up with the other girls in our ILP group since we all ended up in Vienna on the last parts of our trip. After dinner we headed over to the concert hall since it started at 8:15. The concert was amazing! Everyone was dressed up in costumes from that era and the musicians were so good. I love classical music, so I was a happy camper. After the concert, we went McDonald's for ice cream. The other girls told us about this cool fair that was pretty close to us, so we hopped on the subway and went. The fair was interesting because it was pretty much full of drunk partiers haha, but it was still fun to go!

On Sunday, we just had a chill day. We were all pretty tired from the whole week, so we ended up just walking around downtown and exploring a little bit. Our flight left at about 5:30, so we left for the airport at around 2:30 and got back to Iasi around 10:30pm. 

Vienna was so pretty and I fell in love with all of the gorgeous architecture! 

I'm so so so grateful that I was able to go on this AMAZING trip!! I absolutely loved every place that we went, and I definitely want to go back to some of them. This will be a trip that I'll never ever ever ever forget. 

Kara