Snow!

After walking around Venice all day yesterday we had a short nap in our hostel. There were only 4 of us left for the night, all girls. After we were rested we went to mcdonald's for free wifi and to catch up with American life. The internet and cell phone plans are definitely under appreciated in the states. It's a major bummer not to be able to be in touch whenever you want to or to google whatever whenever. Our hostel was supposed to have wifi but apparently some drunk austrailians had cut the cord for who knows what reason. The hot water also randomly stopped working so that eliminated any hope of a shower. Lucas, our hostel host from argentina, let us all into his attached house for dinner and we all helped out in cutting up veggies Tibet cooked with spicy and making caprese panini's for dinner. The 5 of us chatted for a while about who knows what- concentration camps in Europe, favorite locations (kracow Poland and others) as well as the girl who believed zombies were going to come take over at the end of the Mayan calendar 12.12.12.

We were all exhausted probably from walking around all day and headed to bed (all but one haha). I forget if we mentioned it before but I had a cut on my head and it's a disaster mess now so mel has banned me from touching it (it's an extremely hard task, how can I check on it without touching it?) an I also discovered a really cool lump on the back side of my neck as well. Though most likely a knot from sleeping oddly, I guessed the worst and we are keeping an eye on it. WebMD gets me everytime... So many issues to diagnosis yourself with. Melanie hadn't been able to sleep the night before and once she took care of me-good ole travel neosporin- she said she fell asleep before the 1st song on her iPod was over. 

The next morning we had all agreed to push back hostel breakfast from 9 to 10 so we could sleep in. It ended up being around 11 but who can complain with free food. Lucas made us scrambled eggs with ham and cinnamon. Cinnamon you might ask? Odd we all thought at first but delicious. Mel and I both are planning on carrying it on once we arrive back home.  After a quick grocery stop, Internet and a slight bit of shopping we got on our train to Vienna. A nice long 7hrs ahead of us. We are about 4hrs in as I write and there is snow everywhere outside! Beautiful, but doesn't bode well for our warmth the last 2.5weeks of the trip! 

Crazily we've been over here for 5weeks already today. Time has flown! Still so much ahead of us- Vienna, Prague, new addition re added Berlin, amsterdam, London, Scotland and Dublin. We might have a clothes burning celebration at the end of this trip; we both hate everything we have after having to wear it everyday for 35days! Pumped for a taste of a bit of eastern Europe...

...whelp I'm adding to this 3hrs later... Still on the train. We have this little German family next to us whose daughter fell asleep, apparently had a nightmare and woke up yelling 'nein! Nein!' very intense ha. Plus Melanie reinspected my head and reapplied spray neosporin which our surrounding train mates found quite funny. 30mins to go

<3,  Karin

Haha Austria is funny. All the German signs and the word weiner is everywhere. Hahaha so tired.