Bike tour!! Such a great way to see Vienna. Our tour guide took us through the city to Prater and the Donauinsel. On the way back through the Prater, Sarah fell and landed in a Viennese Schrebergarten. The owner and his wife were about to leave, but when they saw the excitement, they came back and got very excited. They were yelling and shaking their heads and fists at us. Chase was asked who speaks German. His eyes got very big, then he pointed at ... ME. Thanks, Chase, I felt like you threw me out of the bus! The angry old garden gnome turned to me and started yelling at me. I kept saying shhhhh, you are going to get a heart attack. Nothing happened, you can fix this, write a letter to the newspaper, enjoy this beautiful day - but nothing helped. He got angrier and angrier. Our tour guide returned and tried to fix the fence. Meanwhile, Sarah stood there, trying to understand what the man said. She was a real trooper. I think I would have started to cry. When he had calmed down a bit, the bad Karma came back to him, and Sarah's bike fell into his measly garden AGAIN. That's when half the group turned away because everyone thought it was unbearably funny. A few minutes later, we got back on the bikes and rode away. Sarah's bike had a flat tire, so we waited for someone to bring us a new bike. Everyone returned happy and amused at the Viennese anger. Top even documented the experience with photos and had her psychology students analyze the situation in psychological terms. Too funny.
We met Tracey back at the Opera house and went to Hawelka where Matthew had the most expensive apple juice of his life and Top and Chase enjoyed some hot chocolate. We ended up having dinner at Reinthaler's and ice ceam on Schwedenplatz before we returned back to Sechshauserstr. Said good bye to Tracey who is going back to the US today. Off to a Mozart walk today and the Otto Habsburg funeral, then a Mozart concert in the Malteserkirche.
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