In any case, today was a good time - we started by visiting the Haus der Musik, a 5 story museum dedicated to music. We spent most of our time on the 1st and 3rd floors, which had exhibits on the history of the Vienna Philharmonic and on many of the major composers who lived and word in Vienna respectively. Trey took pictures of Leonard Berntstein's tux (he was a lot shorter than either of us thought) and Richard Strauss' baton, and we got to make up our own Viennese Waltz by throwing some dice (neat exhibit).
The funniest part, in my opinion, was the little section in which you could "conduct the Vienna Philharmonic." You could pick the tune they were to play, and for a few measures they'd follow you at whatever tempo you took (this type of software has been around for several years - it's actually really cool)...then someone from the orchestra would stand up and say something to the effect of, "this guy doesn't know what the hell he's doing, we can do it without them." We just about fell over laughing! Here's a picture of Trey at the exhibit, though...
After that we ventured to the outskirts of Vienna to a Weingut, or winery. This particular winery was just outside of the Vienna city limits, but most of the grapes were grown inside the city. The picture below is one Trey took just as we jumped off of the bus (public transportation to a winery!). We probably would've gotten to more than one, but we got a little lost on the way to this one, and had dinner plans.
Our dinner plans were with Katrin & Martin. We went to a little place that served traditional Austrian food, and it was wonderful (I've been craving Knoedl ever since I got here, and I got at least a taste of them :-) ). Even better was the company - we actually had an early dinner around 6:30, but went for some drinks afterwards and ended up heading our separate ways at about 11:30. It makes me wish that we were here for a few more days so we could hang out a little more - and it makes me wish that they come visit in the states sometime soon! You guys would love them all!
I'll stop writing pretty soon, but not without posting a picture I've been meaning to all week - our shower is completely see through - here's me standing in it earlier today...
Bizzare, but it's so cool!
Ok, enough for tonight - good night, and it might be a few days before I post again - I don't think we have free WIFI until next Wednesday...
4 comments:
What piece did Trey conduct?
Love the updates - thanks and you guys have a safe next leg of your trip!
Trey does know what he is doing when he conducts, I bet the program let him go longer than anyone else :)
That shower is nuts!! I think it would be hard to be comfortable in it, even alone. :)
Oh and I am jealous you went to a winery. I want to go to a lot of wineries in Europe. Did they give you free samples at the end?
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