We got up rather late on Monday before meeting with one of the guys to go to the Danube. Once we got there, it was lunch time and my roommate decided she needed lunch. I had looked up pizza places on google maps earlier so I thought I knew where one was. The problem is, things on maps seem much closer together than they are in real life. We walked for a while and found this food stand with an adorable older couple working. They had pizza and gyros and such. I got a margarita pizza and a cool-aid looking warm pink lemonade drink for 3 euros. (Such a good deal I bought it again for dinner).
We sat in a park and ate; there was a giant beautiful church, I need to try and find what church it was. There were also some people yelling at each other really awkwardly and a really cool drinking fountain. I'll post pictures later... of the fountain and the church, not the people yelling.
We made our way back to the "beach" of the Danube and ran into another guy from our group. The guys decided they were going to go swimming. I told them it was freezing (based on when I jumped in on Saturday). Of course they were swimming around saying it was no big deal. After a while of laying around Ali and I decided to get in. We were going in step by step freaking out about how cold it was and these random people were laughing at us. Truth be told, it got better after a while...until it started getting worse. The guys joined us and decided we should play chicken. I couldn't stop laughing so Ali and I just started dancing and the guys told us we were doing it wrong, but neither of us wanted to be pushed in because we didn't want to get our heads wet because it was cold enough. Another guy from our group walked by when we were all laughing and hung around for a while. I didn't want to swim back to the steps so I decided to try and pull myself up the retaining wall, which didn't work very well. The other guy helped me up and it worked on the 2nd try. I'll post a picture of the "beach" because I don't think my description is making much sense.
Ali and I in the Danube:
The "beach" and a rainbow:
Anyway, we laid around for a bit longer then walked back to the pizza place and had an early dinner. We met back at our hotel at 4:45pm to leave for the bus station. I spent my remaining 6 euros (I had 50 for the weekend) on pastries at the metro station.
On the bus Ali was freaking out because "Flipped" was available to watch on the TV screens on the back of the seats so I watched it. It was an adorable movie, I highly recommend it. Little side note about these buses, they are part of this company called Student Agency and their tagline is "Fun & Relax", which seems like it is a bad translation and they meant to say "fun & relaxing". Oh well. Also, using the bathroom on the bus is one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do (I didn't use it on the way back from Vienna, but I used it on the way back from Cesky Krumlov I think).
We got back after 11pm and I took a cold shower when I realized how badly I got sunburned. Yikes.
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