If I Lived in Vienna.........

....I´d weigh 300 pounds!  The pastries here are amazing!  I had 3 today: nut, poppy seed, and apple, all served with several scoops of totally decadent whipped cream.

 

We spent the majority of the day at the main art museum.  It was an imcrediby beautiful building, with a great collection.

 

We did some walking around the city.  It is very beautiful - wide boulevards, big imposing buildings, very crowded and bustling, etc.  The weather is pretty cool with intermittant rain.  Actually it kind of makes the place very pretty.  We stopped for coffee and pastries at the Sacher Cafe, which is very famous, and very beautiful.

 

Tonight we heard the Vienna Symphony at the Musikverein, the wonderful, old, ornate concert hall in Vienna.  They played Dvorak´s Cello Concerto, and Beethoven´s 5th Symphony.  The hall is really beautiful, and acoustically it´s one of the best concert halls in the world.  It was really a memorable experience!  The audience was so appreciative of the musicians, they kept clapping (but no instant standing ovation like in America), and there were 2 encores, one by the cellist after her piece, and one by the orchestra after the symphony.  Wow!

 

Tomorrow we´ll go to another museum, and I´m sure eat some more pastries.