Long walk to nowhere

June Third, 2012 –

Today we had one of the longest metro rides that took us to what it seemed like the outer banks of central Vienna.  When we exited from the station there was a giant carnival in front of us and most thought that was what we were going to do for the day.  Unfortunately we walked right past the park and on to our “nature walk”.  While we were on the nature walk we came across thousands of people walking and running in a benefit run.  From what we saw we deduced that it was maybe for breast cancer since every single person that was involved was female and they were wearing red, which is the color for Vienna apparently.  Just to say, for all of the walkers involved I would have to say that pretty much every single one of them had hiking poles and when looking from the outside this was a little strange, but there were thousands of them.  I definitely wish I had taken a picture of this just to show the craziness of it.  We continued to walk a pretty long way and finally turned around to go back and get some food.  When we finally got back to food in literally took the three people who got food an hour.  Most of us just decided to wait until later, but we ended up having to wait anyways for the others. 

On our walk back we had the option to go to another museum or go to the carnival place.  I went ahead and went strait to the carnival for some good old-fashioned fun.  Our first ride was a giant swing that took you up high in the sky and swung you around so you actually ended up with some pretty amazing views of Vienna.  The second ride was called the black mamba and it was pretty intense.  This ride went around and swung you forwards and backwards with what felt like weightlessness at times.  We walked through the rest of the park and would stop at various other rides that looked like fun.

After the carnival we went back to the hotel and for dinner a few of us walked down the street to a place and I got a schnitzel sandwich and beer.  We went back to the hotel and took it easy and packed for the train ride we have in the morning.