Okay okay! Whew everyone! I just finished most of my nursing school application so now I just have to blog and I'll be caught up with life a little. :) Sorry it's taken so long... Oh and ps, it's been so long since I last posted that I've completely forgotten everything I once knew, and I am yet pressed for time, so this may turn out a little schloppy again. Just enjoy the pics and--- go on your way. :)
Well, the first is a picture for dad. Yes, I think of you in while in Vienna. Your name shows up randomly... This is just on a typical street in austria. In the bottom right corner you see the little round Strassenbahn Haltstelle or streetcar stop. That's where I wait every morning and during the day to take the street car to school and other exciting places. But to the REALLY exciting places, I take the subway. :) By myself. Like I did today when I had a beautiful success finding jeans to buy after like an hour of trying on different pairs. All of them were crap but the ones I bought. And -HA- they're from Canada! They're great. I'm just glad that I can stop wearing skirts all, all the time, as much as I love my pink courds, my only pair of pants that doesn't have a largely compromising hole.

Here are some pics out the window of our bedroom. I'll have to take more pics of the apartment eventually... but for now I think I'm doing pretty well taking bazillions of pictures, like I was advised (cough, Cory :) yay! I like taking pics now )
PS Right now I'm in Burgerking using the free internet, and they are playing my beloved classic rock. Right now they're playing "more than a feeling" and they've played tons of awesome music... All the music in stores around here is in English- from America or Brittain. Funny.
Oh, and also, the other night it was so awesome- I was just getting done being lost since the streetcar I normally take home was out of service and I was trying to find my way home w/o a map- haha. Anyway, I made it to our street, and the reason the streetcar line was out of service was because they had a ton of bands and street vendors selling random Austrian food and fruit all over. I stopped to listen to Dire straits... it was awesome. :)


The streets here are super narrow. Super narrower than in the US anyway.





































Here's a picture of Kasia and I with our Hausfrau (host mom, or grandma really) Frau Crenville. She actually has 3 last names: Folliot, Crenville, and something else I forget. She has an aristocratic backround through her husband; she's currently divorced. It's just me, Kasia and her! But we're all frequently out and about.







Here's a couple pics on the bus to Bratislava, our first Friday in Vienna.


This is Kasia sporting that awesome jacket Miranda never wore. I brought it because the color rocks, and come one, color is the most important thing to plan for when you bring few clothes but many outfits, eh? Men. :) For those of you who don't know me well enough try that last part again. It goes Amen. :)



Dang. I have a ton of pics to post. This takes way too long. I'll have to be very selective and share more later. Sorry everyone. But when it comes it will be good. :)

Quite obviously I'm new at blogging- and I'm not quite sure how to get all these pics and text just where I want them- maybe someone can give me the lowdown. I'm sure I'll learn- but for now, I'm going to bed, and I'll trust that everyone will be able to discern the order I attempted. For one, in the future, I'll have to work on the chronology... Good bye and good night everyone! :)





And our walk.








And pics of the apartment...











Here are pics from the bus trip to the hotel.

This is my dinner! Mmmm- so much detail- I love it! The tiny salad we had was half chicken- goodness! The entree is beef stroganoff with spaetzle. I'm not sure spatzle will grow on me- but Kasia likes it... See that half and half? Pretty sure that's for coffee- but, I drank it. :) I'm storing up for later. My budgeting philosophy? ALWAYS take food when it's free.- and going to be wasted.

Here's a random little girl who was quite attracted to Kasia- and kept dashing up the aisle to er-spout some nonsense we couldn't understand. However, I pretended to understand and spouted back to her in English. Kasia didn't think she spoke English. Later her mom scooted her up the aisle speaking French- Kasia was right.

This is me, stirring the salt and pepper into my tomato juice with a cool, pretty green stirry thingy. Yes I'm easily amused- it's a good thing, I assure myself. Plus, I kept that stirry thingy- I bet I could



This is Kasia and I basking in the take off sunlight pictured above- though you can't really tell... we just look cute.
Here's Ruth. Eating a hazlenut on our Austrian Air flight. Austrian Air is lots nicer than Delta. They had blankets and pillows for everyone, and served us 2 meals, and their upholstery and flight attendant outfits were pleasantltly colorful :) I like.


Haha- Haha! Whoa! I'm heeere! :) (Nervous/excited laughter) Yeayaa, this is so much fun I'm having right now. So here's a quick review of the 'day' (Which has really been a day and a half) traveling to Vienna, first in words and then in pictures, with commentary. Airport, hotel, walk, dinner. Now for the pics :)

Here is my good friend Kasia, graciously pointing to the Terminal 1 sign. Funny that that identification is no where on any map we found... Kelsey (my sister-in-law) was right. The JFK airport is confusing! Plus, since I'd had basically no sleep the night before (busy tying up loose ends- HA! Like I could ever tie up all the loose ends of my life... :) ) I was definitely out of it, and very grateful and fortunate to have a lovely group of BYU girls to navigate the airport with. And by group I mean there were 5 of us. It ended up that a JFK employee saw us puzzling over the fact that there was no "terminal" 1 pictured on the map and pointed us in the right direction. And we made it!

Introducing the start of wonderful things...ABROAD!

Oh hello. Soon Kasia Cook and I will enter the world of our dreams and make them come true. Thanks to our hard work and lovin' of life. :)