Day 25 - More Vienna

Saturday, June 6th - I didn't even move while Sandra got up and got ready for the day - I was beyond exhausted from the night before. Sukhey, Jas and I decided to sleep in and take the metro into the city and meet up with the tour later on in the day. Around noon we grabbed a train into the city centre and wandered around a bit. I was taken back by how beautiful the city was - I loved the architecture. We stopped to grab some lunch at a fantastic restaurant, this may have been the best meal I had on the entire trip. I tried some cold cucumber soup which was delicious, followed by some gnocchi. Not very Austrian but still very good. We also split some spreads to start - it sounds horrible but the pork belly spread was out of this world. Can't wait to try it again!

After lunch we ran into Rochelle, Lorraine and a few others and grabbed some gelato. Gelato was a daily treat in Europe, oh how I miss holiday life. We then headed to Schonbrunn Palace to meet up with the rest of the tour. Schonbrunn Palace has an amazing garden, we spent about 45 minutes hanging out in the sun and enjoying the scenery. I would love to spend an entire day in that garden with a book and just relax. We then headed to a castle, the name of the castle has been lost on me but it wasn't very exciting. By now we were a few weeks into the trip, and seeing another castle kinda got old. The highlight for me was getting stuck in the gift shop because I wasn't tall enough to open the automatic door to get out. Yes, that happened and just another reason why I really dislike gift shops.

After the castle stop we headed to the Schnapps Museum, this was one of the better Contiki events of the tour. Our guide was very interesting, he gave a great history of the museum without being boring. At one point I starting coughing up a storm - by now my contiki cough was at it's worst, and our schnapps guide promised that he had the cure for our coughs. I forget the name but it was some kind of super strong shot. After the tour we got to sample the different schnapps, we were only allowed 3 but everyone had a lot more. I had about 8, which was on the low side compared to everyone else. Sandra, Sukhey and I split on the "contiki cure" that was supposed to cure our cough. It never cured my cough but it did help get me drunk.

After the schnapps museum it was time to head back to the hotel. I decided to grab a quick nap and then a bunch of us met of for dinner at the hotel restaurant. Dinner was alright although it took a long time to get served being such a big group. Paula and Chloe got served and finished eating in half the time we were there. After dinner we all got ready to go out again. We did a brief predrink and then it was off to the club. Shane had done his research and found a great club - Pratadome. This is probably the best club I have ever been too - there was about 8 different rooms playing different kinds of music. I spent the entire night group/room hopping and dancing the night away. Heaps of fun, the music was great. Tom and I found a Heinken vending machine, how awesome is that?! It was self-serve and cheaper than the bar, we need to bring these to Toronto. Around 5am the last men standing were the Amigo's and I (again). We stumbled out of the club and the sun was once again already rising. We grabbed a taxi back to our hotel. Hung out with Ben for a bit and then realized that it was time to pack up and grab some breakfast - the coach was scheduled to leave in about an hour!

Schonbrunn Palace

Pratadome

Brylie and I

Shane and Ben - on our way home