Feeling Pumped

 Mozart house 

 Christmas Markets

 Rathaus

Chris, Lyndsi, and I chillin in Zurich

 Opera house

 Oh and we hit up Liechtenstein

 The lambs have legit bells around their necks...

 ROOTBEER!!!! Oh how you've been missed

 Vaduz, Liechtenstein... still has a royal family and lives in the castle on the hill

 the prince of Liechtenstein... nbd

 yodeling anyone? 

fall has fallen and winter has set in

 Opera house... my favorite place in Wien

For Thanksgiving I performed in a recital at the Wien Konservatorium (Vienna Conservatory of music)

 After the recital with some other bassoonists and our teacher, Marcelo Padilla

This weekend we went skiing in Ischgl in Tirol, Austria

 Getting pumped up on the lift up!

 The team: Kendal, Me, Ashley, Elysse, Ali, Becca, Lyndsi

 It was opening weekend so the snow was a little skimpy but it was still a blast!

Summing up in numbers...

Ski days: 1

Concert count: 23

Days left in Europe: 9

Glad to be Gladiating

 Friday... we went to Seegrotte Hinterbruhl

It's the largest underground lake in Europe

 During WWII they drained the lake and brought in Italian prisoners from Mauthausen to build some of the first jet planes.  

Austria National Library...thanks to prince Eugene

 Strauss in Stadt park

Maria Theresia's dog... the actual dog

 Natural History museum.... all the dinosaurs are from Utah nbd... and Venus of Willendorf is in here... the first piece of art ever found

Karls Kirche... our history professor is also photographed.  He is Indiana Jones in real life... seriously

 They are restoring the frescos on the inside and have opened up the scaffolding to the public...legit

 Karlsplatz Ubahn station oper exit... musical stairs.  They are hooked up to speakers and you can play the piano as you musically prance up the stairs

 Butterfly house... Shelley, Elysse, and Lyndsi photographed

 LEAVES!!!!!

 We went to Carnuntum on Saturday.. It's old roman ruins. They just recently discovered a colosseum that apparently is larger than the one in Rome but it's still being excavated so we checked out a smaller amphitheater

 One of our friends works for a professional volleyball team here and she brought along one of her friends... aka we hung out with a professional athlete all day

 Gladiators... legit

 Fall has just about officially left and it's sehr kalt (super cold) now... Christmas markets opened up this weekend though!

 Beethoven

 Staatsoper museum... Der Rosenkavalier anyone? 

 Our host frau, Lilo, took us to see the Vienna Phil perform.  They played Brahms Piano concerto No. 1 and Symphonic Dances by Rachmoninov... the second movement of the Brahms is the most beautiful piece of music ever! best bassoon part EVER! 

Only three weeks left! Ah! Time is flying by way too quickly