December 26th, 6:30 am wake up call for a train ride that all of us are super excited for our 9 hours of sitting in one place. I guess one good thing is that we didnt have to change trains at which was nice. This post wont be too exciting due to the fact that we spent most of the day on the train but a few cool things did happen. First of all the entire countryside was beautiful! It was covered in snow and along the way we saw some cool castles and buildings. We pretty much followed this river most of the train ride which made the scenery pretty dang nice. Morgan got this game called Mau Mau in her stalking which is the german version of Uno... Each game took a little over an hour to play which helped pass the time. So, at the end of the game when you play your last card you are required to say Mau Mau because if another player says it before you then you do not win and you have to draw 5 more cards. Well, lets just say shane was way better and yelling "BOOM!" to talk crap then saying Mau Mau. I think we all regretted calling him out on it due to the fact the game went on for another 30 min or so..
Another highlight of this lovely 9 hour train ride was the eating of a delicious "cookie" .You will soon see why cookie is in quotes... We had packed some stuff to make lunch on the train and shane and I decided it would be funny if we could get matt to eat some of Syd's food. For those of you who do not know who Syd is, Syd is shane and morgan's dog that has come along this trip with us. Anywho, after eating our sandwiches and about 4-5 hours on the train making all our brains turn to mush a bit we asked matt if he wanted a cookie for dessert as he had finished his sandwich first. At first we thought there was no way he would fall for it because it was just a piece of you average dry dog food. After a second matt said "yeah, sure i will have a cookie" and shane tossed him a delicious piece of syd's food and matt tossed it directly into his mouth...all of us burst out laughing and matts face turned from sour to laughing along with us. Then matt flipped it on us a bit. He pulled the dog food out of his mouth for a second and then said "eh, lets give it a try" and tossed the food back into his mouth and began chewing... He actually ate it!!! I seriously laughed until I cried which I hace not done for some time. He was a good sport and it helped pass the time on the train.
Once we got into Vienna we got to shanes friends old apartment that still is furnished with a few things (she is moving and right now has 2 places). Super nice of her to let us stay here for free!! Although it was obvious that someone had been smoking in the apartment recently it was still a free roof over our heads with a heater which is 100% necessary due to the fact that while in vienna it has been in the teens. We went out to try to find a place to eat which was a little tough because it was sunday and things close early. We did find one restaurant that was open and had some good local food. I would get a bit more into the food but we are about to leave for our train to Munich so for now we are out...but we are going to try to catch up on all the fun things we did and saw here in vienna and post them as soon as we can. I am not sure if we are going to have internet in munich but we will be back in Berlin in a few days. Hope everyone is doing well!
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