Jen and I had decided the day prior that we woudl cut our Budepest trip short and take a river boat to Vienna (which was half way to Prague). So we got up and headed for our boat to at 9:00. We walked to the port and arrived in plenty of time to depart.
The boat ride was enjoyable, even though I slept through over half of the trip. The best part was when the lady announced we were going through a lock. The people from Florida (who had a New York accent but appeared to be from Mississippi) missed this annoucement, so they were suprised when teh boat stopped. Fortunetly their daughter investigated and found that we were between two walls. This majorly perplexed the four adults. So they went upstairs to investigate themselves. When they emerged they were completey confused at this point. They coulden't understand what was going on. Jen was nice and explained it to them, which made them excitied. They had never been in a lock system before! This was amazing all the sudden. We sat to the side and listened to family describe how the lock worked. Afterwards we all went back to our seats. They were pretty amazed because when else will they be able to go through a lock? What they didn't know was they could do it again at the end of the trip. This actually pissed them off, because we were going to be an hour late. (Although they were confused on our arrival time).
After departing from the boat, Jen and I found the metro and took it to the hostel stop where we wandered the area until we foudn teh hostel. After settling in we went to central Vienna. We decided we should at least see a little bit of the city. We discovered the city was pretty amazing. It was VERY clean and VERY pretty. We went to the central square and then walked over to a fountain we could see in the distance. Then we walked over to another fountain near a church where we bought some drinks and chilled by the fountain. Very fun. We returned to a full room in our hostel. One French, two French Canadians, a Mexican, and a few Itallions. We talked for a while until the whole room turned in for bed failry early.
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