Pardon the lack of pictures. All of them were on my phone. Which is no longer in my possession... Thanks Milan.
Well... We are finally back in the Czech Republic!! After what seemed like the longest and busiest two weeks of my life we are finally back to good old Olomouc. So for this weeks blog I have 2 weeks to cover since we just got off our spring break. However I'm not totally sure how to keep an audience amused as I ramble on for twenty minutes about how my spring break went. So, with that in mind I'm going to take my huge trip and break it into two blogs this week. So I'll split it up as our school affiliated trip experience and my personal experiences afterward. With that in mind... Let's get to it!
We started our excitement on the 12th. Waking up in the early morn in order to hop up on the bus and take a beautiful three hour nap on the way to Vienna, Austria. Here's where it gets real exciting ladies and gents. Thinking since its past noon and we had half an hour before our tour of Vienna was to start me and a few of the girls figured we needed to go get food. We thought everyone was heading out. Well they weren't. What we thought was our lunch break was actually just time to get situated and then go get food with the group... Well we got back to our hostel and everyone was gone. So after frantically trying to find out where everyone went we eventually gave up... and took a nap.
Though all was not lost for the Vienna trip. The next day we were able to go and see the Habsburg Museum. Which basically is full of jewels and paintings and things from the Habsburg dynasty that no one in the world would ever be able to afford. One piece included an emerald of over 800 karats. After walking through there for about an hour we got the chance to go to the Vienna Natural History Museum. I was in heaven. It was interactive and all the fun stuff a child like me loves! Room after room of rocks and minerals, rooms of bones and ancient civilizations, room after room one after another. Finishing it all off with a whole floor dedicated to animals. Sadly we had to rush through it a bit since we only had an hour and a half. But it was definitely worth it!
We were on our own from there. Shopping and food was next and of course you have to experience the night life while you're out and about! So we found an amazing pub that happened to be for tourists and international students! We made some pretty cool friends (most of them being American for some reason) and then we had to get on the bus by 6 a.m.
A 7 hour trip with a few stops thrown in and we arrived at the train station in Venice. Now I was expecting to have to get on a bus. You know... because Venice is an island and all. But luckily they have a train that will take you straight to the island! Now when you picture Venice you see beautiful buildings and rivers. That's EXACTLY what it looks like. If you were to add hundreds of other tourists walking back and fourth everywhere you turn. But I really wasn't complaining. Venice was beautiful. The rivers. The people. The food. All of it... Well except for the prices. We got a few tours of the city. Followed by a tour of the palace of the duke of Venice and then we were left on our own. But hey, it only took us a little over an hour and a half to find our hostel!
2 days in Venice with our group then we were left to fend for ourselves in the wilderness of Italy. We were left with only one thing on our minds... "We're going on a trip. In our favorite rocket ship. Zooming through the sky!!!!!!"
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