Pictures from Vienna

You can read about my Friday here. I can't remember much beyond that, except that I went to the library to get registered, ordered some books, and got my butt kicked at art-history go fish by a five year old.

Saturday I went to the library which closed early, so I decided I'd better pay homage to the city, so I wandered around the inner city. Here are some of the places I went. (WARNING: the view screen on the digital camera doesn't work, and the view finder isn't placed very well, so every picture looks out of balanced, to add to the fact I don't know much about taking pictures).

Hofburg

Plague Column

St. Peter's

St. Stephens

Inside a Japanese choir on tour performed the Classical Christian top hits, like "Jesu, joy of man's desiring," "Panis Angelicus" and "Ave Verum."
By this point I was hunger, so I went looking for a quick schnitzel sandwich. Unfortunately I couldn't find the place I used to go to. But I found this for Carrie, the wienerisch expert:

And this store for Matt:



I finally decided I might as well get a real schnitzel at what every missionary calls Herb's, otherwise known as Schnitzelwirt. Truly great, even if the missionaries like it. Look what I got for six euro:

Add a little Erdäpfelsalat and Apfelsaft gesprizt and you have a perfect meal:

Later that night I dragged MA out to St. Michael's for an organ concert. The organ in the church is the original baroque instrument installed in the 18th century. The concert was very good and very Italian. Afterward we got a tour of the organ and learned its secrets (it has a vox humana stop and the pedalboard is only one octave) and the secrets of the organist (he wears a fanny pack when he performs). Topped off with a little gelato made for a satisfactory second day in Wien.