Today was definately one of the coolest days in Vienna. We got up this morning, and just had a girls' day! Me, Nina (roommate), Amber, Connie (from Vancouver, Canada), and Elizabeth (from Penn) all went to this open-air market. It is a Vienna tradition that on Saturday mornings, the people get up and go to this market. There, they all eat breakfast and shop around. This place basically looked like a giant Berea yard sale!!! Just like home, haha. There were tents and tables lined up for blocks with everything from jewelry, to tablecloths, to antique glasses, to violins. If you wanted it, it was probably there. I even saw a 1980's Prince album at one of the booths.

Half of this giant market consisted of "stuff," and the other half was all food. Connie and I got seperated from the other girls, because they wanted to eat sooner than we did. We tried finding them, but the crazy yard sale was just too big... so the little Korean from Canada and I embarked on quite the adventure! While we were walking along the food part of the market, this fruit vender called us over to his cranberry stand. He said, "Hello, Asian beauty! Come here!" I don't think that he was talking to me, but I accompanied Connie over to the stand. After giving us some free cranberries, he made a proposal of marriage to Connie after trying to communicate in various Asian languages with her. The man said hello in Chinese and Japanese, but got the idea when I just politely said, "CANADA!"

Connie and I spent several hours in the market and also tried some strudel, which was great! After that, we decided to tour the opera house on a whim. We'd passed that building every day, but had never seen the inside, so we thought that we would like to get a little culture, since the weather was beautiful! The tour lasted about 45 minutes, and since we were students, we got a discount admission of about 3.5 Euros. That's great! We absolutely loved the tour, and are inspired to go see several operas while we are in Vienna. Students can get standing seats for 3 Euros. We think that we can deal with standing, because box seats are around 200 Euro.... no thanks!

We also just shopped around a little bit and then headed back to the dorm to cook dinner with the rest of the girls. Today was so much fun, and I just love my new friend! Maybe we can take a little vacation to Canada soon!