Amanda and Carrie in Vienna: A Very Long Night at the Museums!

Saturday was the annual Lange Nacht Der Museen (Long Night of Museums) here in Vienna. The tickets were 13 Euro each and you can go to around 100 museums from 6pm to 1am. It was a whirlwind of walking, talking, and taking everything in. It was cold and I was worried about our friend from California. She looked miserable at moments and I was afraid she would eventually turn in to a Popsicle!! She survived and I think she had fun. A large group of us started at the National Library this library looks like the library in Beauty and the Beast (the Disney version). It was beautiful even though the books on display were all about torture and capital punishment. I'm not sure what all that was about but the library itself was quite beautiful. We then all went to the Bible Center. In this center they had many different versions of the Bible. They were written in many different languages. I enjoyed the free postcards with Bible verses in German and the food that was from the time of Martin Luther. After this we all split up into smaller groups. Melissa, Leslie, Carrie and me all headed to the hat museum, shoe museum, and the snow globe museum. This was a bus route that we had to take to get to these. We accidentally missed the hat museum (the driver didn't tell us where we were and so we stayed on the bus!) so we went into the shoe museum. It was small but there were a lot of interesting shoes there. The snow globe museum was even smaller and they had a lot of snow globes. Apparently it is a family business and they let us put together little plastic Christmas trees that could go into a small snow globe. After this we went to the Globe museum. It was interesting but most importantly it was really warm inside. After that we went to the Natural History Museum and looked at many, many different species of birds and animals of various types and sizes. The elephant was huge! I want to go back here someday as we didn't get a lot of time to look around. We then went to the Planetarium. It was all in German but interesting none the less. I thought I was just about to fall asleep when the bright lights turned on and the show was over. This was around 1:00am and we then walked 10 minutes home! I'm glad I went but I am still recovering! Here are some pictures. Enjoy!