Europe Trip: Day 12, June 1st

Quite the interesting way to celebrate the beginning of the new month a very late night and a late start to the day...

As I mentioned at the end of the last blog, I slept until about 1pm. Then I got ready before Julius woke up. He woke up at around 2pm when his Mom called him, inviting both of us over for lunch/dinner at 3pm. So we went over, and they were very nice people.

Both parents spoke quite good English and we talked about politics, health care, and even Biology since Julius' mother had gotten her doctorate in Zoology, but is now working in politics.

Following his parents advice, we went over to this big park overlooking an imperial palace. We walked down the hill, and then around the palace grounds which had some nice gardens. It is quite a beautiful place, so I hope to go back there one of these days. Plus it is right next to the zoo, which Julius' Mom recommended I go to.

I had talked to a CouchSurfing friend of mine who also goes to BSU, named Conor. We had talked before I left and I found out that he was going to Vienna for an internship, and he agreed to meet up with me that night. So at 6:30pm I met up with him and another intern who had just flown into Vienna a few hours early, Javier. At the restaurant we met two more interns, Mark and Andrew I think there names were. Got to hear some interesting stories, a couple of them were from Boston, one had gone to Yale.

After hanging out for a bit and eating a snitzel, I headed back to Julius' place. A few of his friends had came over, but didn't stay too long. We decided to just take it easy after the previous night, and so we just watched Boondock Saints. Unfortunately about halfway through the English version stopped working. The German version worked fine, but we couldn't change the language or add subtitles. Eventually Julius said he was too tired and went off to bed. I tried watching for a bit longer, but wasn't getting much out of it. So I shut it off and called Mom, Dad, Grandma Shirley, and Jeff.

Now it is already past 1am again! So I am headed off to bed. At least I'm completely caught up now after several long nights that prevented me from writing these. Depending on the social aptitude and sleeping habits of my CS hosts, I may get behind like this. But no worries, I am keeping notes and I will catch up after not too long.