Vienna

Our train was delayed for about 2 hours because it looked like the train hit someone...but we're not sure. We finally got there, went to the hostel and then took the metro into the center of the city where we were conned into buying tickets for the Imperial Orchestra from a guy dressed up in a cape and hat. It was pretty cool. It was about 10 musicians playing songs of Strauss and Mozart and others. There were two opera singers and ballet dancers as well.
We went to the top of the Stephensdom cathedral and had great views of the city. We then wandered to the Stadttempel and sat in on shabbat morning services for about an hour. The cantor had a great voice and there was a choir which was cool. Then we walked down the Naschmarkt which was a street about two miles long and it was packed with millions of stands selling fruits and veggies and spices and meat and fish and olives and nuts (kind of like the shuk in israel but bigger). Then at the end, there was a huuuuge flea market and people were selling really anything you could think of, from sink parts to dolls heads...

Then we went to the Kunsthistorisches, the Fine Art Museum and looked at a lot of paintings

Then we tried to get standing room tickets for the Staatsoper, the main opera house but we didnt find the line in time and were about 50 people away from getting tickets, so instead we saw a movie...Pink Panther 2...it was horrible and we knew it was going to be horrible, but all the locals in the theater were laughing at the stupidest things which made it mildly entertaining.

On Sunday we went the the Schloss Schonbrunn, the Habsburg Palace. It was very big and the grounds were huuuuge. It was also pouring rain. We went up a big hill to the top and had a view of the palace and grounds which was nice but i'm sure it would be nicer in the spring/ summer.