Today we went to the Schönbrunn Palace and gardens. Once again, everything was so huge that it was hard to fit everything in the picture! Thank goodness for the iPhone's panoramic feature.
The gardens behind the palace had a huge park and a bunch of other cool monuments:
This is a view of the back of the palace from a giant hill we hiked up:
We walked around the palace for a few hours and were exhausted afterwards. One thing that happened again a lot was that people keep thinking we speak German! People always ask us for directions or try and joke around with us and we just smile and nod.
Tonight we went to see the opera at the famous State Opera house!! We saw Nabucco which is an Italian play about King Nebechanezer. We got "standing room" tickets which were only €4 and we got a pretty good spot right in the center balcony. One interesting thing was that right after you get your ticket (an hour and a half before the show) you run up to the area and mark your spot. Many people use scarves or ribbons. We were unaware of this so Julie used her headphones and I rigged my map with a hair tie around the pole, haha!
This is what the little standing area looked like:
And of course, the beautiful opera house:
We absolutely loved Vienna and would definitely come back. Tomorrow we leave early in the morning for Germany!
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