Day 6 - May 21st - Julius Meiner, Contemporary Art Museum, FHE

          Today we started out at the Julius Meiner grocery store. It was packed with expensive, high-end food items, especially fish, chocolate, and alcohol. The chocolates were beautiful….. but I didn’t buy anything.

eh???

Yum! Oreo and Chips Ahoy cake mixes!!

     After wandering around there for awhile, our group headed over to the Museum Quarter. This is basically a nice social center surrounded by a lot of cool museums. 

(and a lot of PDA)

Here's our group, waiting for the rest of us

          We bought tickets for the Leopold Museum and the Contemporary Art museum. But before going through any museums, we had to try out the little photo booth we found there in the courtyard. It was pretty much impossible to make us all fit in there, but we did our best and had a grand old time.

         After this, we decided to eat lunch, and Suzanne was awesome and bought our lunch which was delicious. 

Interesting fizzy apple drink

       

        After lunch we braved the Contemporary Art museum, which wasn’t really my favorite, but there were certainly some interesting things there. Modern art isn’t really my thing. 

Don't be fooled, this thing was huge!

       

         After we finished there, it was late enough that we decided to do the Leopold on another day, we didn’t want to have to rush it. Some of us dawdled in a cool gift shop under the Contemporary Art museum while we waited for the rest of the group. 

These were some very cool, very overpriced, dish scrubbers. :)

        

     

           After we powwowed, Lori and Kaitlyn went back to Stadt Park to meet up with the slacklining group for a few hours, so Suzanne and Heather were nice enough to let Nicole, Stevie and me tag along with them while they did a little shopping. We mostly just wandered around the Stephensplatz until Heather and Suzanne stopped for pizza and Nicole and Stevie went to H and M. I stayed with Heather and Suzanne and the plan was to meet the other girls in H and M. After their pizza was gone, Suzanne, Heather and I went to look for them and they weren’t there, we even looked on every single level! We were tired of waiting, so we decided to let them figure out how to get home on their own, while we went to Suzanne and Heather’s Marriott without them to meet Lori and Kaitlyn for Family Home Evening.  Kaitlyn, Lori and I had quite an adventure trying to find the Institute building, but eventually we did and we had a good time there, eating and playing games.

         It was fun to see how the singles' ward in Vienna seemed just the same as the ones here. It was also fun to talk to the missionary couple from Texas who were in charge of the activities.