I'll have 2 of your best sausages and a bottle of champagne, please.

Friday, August 23rd, 2019 

Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria 

It's 9am CES and I am slowly waking up. Laura has already left for her flight back to Austin. Sarah and I get ready for the day and then find a cafe that is just crowded enough to suggest good food. Brunch is long but also relaxing. We sit on the sidewalk, people watch and remain completely charmed by the streets of Hungary. 

After we finish brunch, we go back to the hotel to pick up our bags for our train to Vienna. The train ride lasts about 2.5 hours, of which I mostly listen to music. Once we are checked into our hotel in Vienna, it’s 2pm and extremely hot outside. We unanimously decide that it’s time for a beer break. We pick a cafe solely based on the amount of shade and luck out by finding one nestled in between two tall buildings. 

Sarah and I relax over 2 rounds of perfectly chilled, Austrian beer. We also take some time to organize our pictures, which are numerous and very repetitive. Eventually, we decide to head over to the Albertinaplatz art museum. 

The galleries are filled with Picassos and even some other artists that I know like Monet and Much. It’s nice to be out of the sun for a little bit and I am truly impressed by their collection. 

After the art museum, we decide that it’s time for dinner. Sarah and I walk to one of the many sausage carts in the main square. We each order 2 sausages and a small bottle of champagne. The price is higher than we expected, but we really want champagne and sausage, so we follow through. We sit on the steps of a large statue and take like 10 photos of each other. This is honestly one of the coolest of dinners that I’ve ever had. 

Now that day is starting to cool off, we walk to the main park for the Vienna film festival, which is free and open to the public. We enter into a courtyard lined with beer vendors and food trucks. We buy a round of beer and easily find a place to sit and people watch. Almost an hour later, a movie starts, which is projected on the side of one of the government buildings. The movie is black and white and even though its in German, we can still kind of follow it. We enjoy making up the parts that we can’t understand. Around 11pm we are tired and head back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep.