So Many Beautiful Babies

One of the greatest things about this trip has been the copious amounts of dirty dread-headed hippies and beautiful beautiful babies. They are everywhere you go, and it is wonderful. I fit right in with my tie tyed sweatshirt, and dont need anything more than baby watching to make me day go well.

I have arrived in Vienna. They dropped us off at the airport, and so therefore we had to walk around in lots and lots of circles trying to deciphor the German language (which, after Hungarian seems like the easiest thing in the world). We finally figured it out, until some crazy lady kicked us off the train at the wrong stop. You can´t do that to two stupid American girls that have no idea where they are. Needless to say, we eventually figured it all out and made it to the flat where we are staying.

Nevermind being a fire dancer, I want to be like Alex. He´s one of the guys living here, who walks around in his bath robe until the afternoon, drinks copious amounts of coffee while chain smoking all day, and speaks in a his deep German voice, with his scraggly beard. Occascionally he goes to school. It has amazed me that every person we have stayed with seems to be living off of nothing. Why wasn´t I told that I really could have moved to Europe after high school, smoke all day (I would have taken up smoking if I knew that it could lead to a life like these, as it seems smoking is an essential element here), and write a classic novel, screen-print tee shirts, and bake all day for the craft fair my group of friends decided to host in a coffehouse; all while never actually holding a real job. Amazing.

Oh well. Vienna is another beautiful city, and the weather yesterday was amazing. We´re starting to suffer a little from sensory overload, and the feeling that "We´ve seen one amazing building, we´ve seem all the amazing buildings", and so after walking around for a bit we sat in parks all day. Occascionally we changed parks in order to buy ice cream (which is finally delicious, without alcohol, and everything I could have hoped for), but for the most part we got to soak up the warmth, sit and relax, watch all of the dirty hippies sit around with their guitars and beers, and of course- be amazed that so many beautiful babies can exist in one place.

The flat consists of three guys from Germany, a girl from Turkey, and Karin our actual host who is from Austria. Four of them study architecture, while the other studies stage design. Its a pretty eccentric household and going out with them last night was fabulous.

Love you all and miss you. My next post will be from Cyprus. Boo.