Amazing Austria

 For the Second Part of our trip, my dad and I went to visit our friend Friedl at his house in Vienna. It was a shorter trip (we were only there for four days), but it was relaxing.

On the first day, we walked to the park with Friedl and had wiener schnitzel, which is one of my favorite things about Austria. We then went to an old Austrian Amusement park where they had this swing that flew you 350 feet in the air. It was so much fun. Then we did bumper cars, and I had fun  driving them and hitting my dad. After, we walked back and waited for Friedl's son to come home. When he came home, we went out to dinner at a Heuriger. A Heuriger is a place where they serve the recent year's wine and their wine only. They also have a buffet and different meats, which were delicious. A man was playing accordion while we ate, which made it fun and relaxing.

On the second day, we went to the Belvedere Museum. It is a very famous museum which holds my mom's favorite Painting: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.  I've seen the print a million times, but it was incredible to see the real thing! It had so much gold and color. We walked around there for a couple of hours and went down to the exhibition of Egon Schiele at the lower Belvedere. He is a portrait painter who does many portraits of himself. It was really fun.

On the third day, we went to see the Lipizzaner Stallions, which is a Spanish Horse Riding School in Vienna. We then walked to the world famous Sacher Restaurant for lunch. It was so good, I was in Heaven. After a long siesta, we went back to the Amusement park and rented a 2 man bike for fun. Later that night, after dinner, we went to this old castle where you can see all of Vienna. Right as we were walking out, we ran into a Pro Woman's downhill mountain biker who was going for a night ride down the trail right by there. It was another fun day and I was excited because the next day we were leaving for the countryside.

On our last day, we went out to Friedl's farm outside of Vienna. We played Badminton and ate good food until we took a nap. After the nap, Friedl gave us a tour of the farm where we saw all of the cows, sheep, pigs and one beautiful and giant Saint Bernard named Bari. Friedl then walked us over to a memorial  for his Uncle, who died on the Eastern Front in Russia during WW2. After that, we had to leave and say goodbye to Friedl and his family. I really enjoyed our visit with them because it was so much fun.