a tall personality

This week we had to wake ourselves up early every single morgen! We had super early deutsch class monday and wednesday, but we got to bring food and have a huge breakfast (reminiscent of the old tuesdays in french class)! This is another topic all together, but this week I finally worked up the courage to try milchreis. It is like lumpy...pudding stuff. I was a skeptic at first, but now I'm mourning over it not existing to my knowledge in the states. I can't bring it home either because it has to be refridgerated! But, if any of you are ever over here, I reccomend it. Thursday we played Frisbee in the freezing cold Prater. We are all so out of shape, the game lasted less than an hour and we spent much of the time laughing at ourselves. Can't complain though. One of these pictures is a picture of me going to church carrying mushroom soup. Chels and I wanted to make Green bean casserole but they have no canned mushroom soup here so we made some real stu ff and just added some...

Alright, things have changed and I took a picture of it! I SHOULD take more, but my camera has been out of batteries. I think I sent an email out about what I've been up to the past week. Doesn't sound quite as exciting as Annie's adventures. This week I think I'll be doing a lot of homework (which isn't so bad really since it's the ONLY week of this whole semester I can say that about. It's snowy here and it is cold but beautiful, especially out where I live. Last night for FHE we were all gathered at the out-reach center at the church, that's what the second picture is of- just another party. Anway Over and out.

This is my and Lauren's "we're lost!" faces when we got lost in Rome

Lauren and I on top of the dome in Florence, the most beautiful city view I have ever seen

Brian Venice

We crashed on the grass out side of the catacombs

View from the top of St. Peter's Basicila in Rome

In front of a church in Venice

This one is going in my portfolio, poor Ryan, these pidgeons wanted to go home with him, they were trying to get in his back pack

me being attacked by pidgeons!

Lauren being attacked by pidgeons!

Grand Canal in Venice by day

Bridge in Venice

Spanish steps in Rome

Me in a puddle at the Roman forum

The Eis in florence, we ate it at least two times every day

Our hostel in Florence..well the second hostel...

This is the Duomo in Florence, the whole giant church is made out of different colored marble, amazing. Especially on days with blue sky instead of monsoon sky!

Polezei in riot gear at the soccer game

speaks for its self

Us at the ccrraaazzzyy soccer spiel. They had police out, the dogs, firewords, the whole 9 yards (or meters)

giant pretzels inSalzburg

Ryan's glowing swan we took when we went for a little boat ride

These are the kids I'm going to Italy with, little Ryan, Lauren da hinten (we have two laurens in my german class, lauren da vor and lauren da hinten (front lauren and back lauren)) and Brian (the one who is obviously not little Ryan)

This is a river in Hallstatt whereRyan and I went for that hike

Looking away from the lake, you can see a little waterfall in the middle of the picutre almost.

Another picture from the hike. This is looking down the waterfall we climbed up into the valley, you might be able to make out a little farm at the bottom of the mountain. notice the INCREDIBLE fall colors. We couldn't really see them until the sun came up which made it all the more amazing.

This is my buddy Ryan who went on that awesome hike with me that I told you all about. The sun was juuusttt starting to come up, as you can see.

Chelsea and the view from the Salz Burg of Salzburg

These are some nice young men we met in a ...bier haus...or something. we had REAL austrian food with REAL austrians!

Chelsea and me next to the...yes...you guessed it! The 'i am 16 going on 17' gazebo from the Sound of Music!

We went to a place call Hellbrunn with Wasser Speile or trick fountains. They got everyone's pants wet it was awesome? I was sick so I climbed a fence and took a nap on a park bench like the ho bo I am

Hallstatt

Kenneth (one of the Brewer's kids) Laura and I in the ...entrance thing to the institute

Salzburg in the day

Salzburg at night, believe it.

ok this is more on the enigma of the noridic walkers, they have formed a corperation or something! We found a whole flock of them doing arm circles! The best I can decipher is they are the land lubber version of water areobics

looking back at Hallstatt from the lake. One of the guys and I climbed back up that valley at 5:30 am and watched the sun rise from up in the mountains. He has all the pictures of it though

Hallstatt, we rented a boat for a little while and cruised the lake

We went to a salt mine and they gave us these sweet oompa loompa outfits to keep us not-salty!

This is Chelsea and I in Hallstatt, m y favorite place in the world possibly, a little tiny town in the mountains on a lake (sound like home?)

This is a picture I took when I was out running in the morning looking over the outskirts of Vienna

This is what I wore for fooshes when we went to the castle. This was the reaction of one of the girls in the group "ooo, trying to work the socks and sandals thing? Ah! your socks don't even match! I'm embaressed for you!"

Chelsea taking a picture of the castle

Berg Kreutzenstein-the fairytale castle

This is the ruins of a Roman amphitheater we visited in Carnuntum, a Roman settlement on the Donau River