Vienna Day 3

Today I made my trip out to see the inside of Schloss Shonbrunn and the Stephansdom Church. I was woken up at 615 this morning to the sounds of my room mates packing their bags. It didn't really bother me at all so I just tried to ignore it and go back to sleep. That didn't work so at around 850 I was all set for the day and walked out the door to go to the subway. It wasn't until I got to the Schonbrunn stop that I remembered that I was going to go see the inside of the palace so I quickly got off the train so I could make my quick stop there. I got there bright and early so to avoid big line ups. As I walked to where you start the tour inside I noticed that it said no backpacks and I quickly looked around to see if there was any spot that I could store my backpack which I didn't see. I wasn't going to toss my bag into a bush and hope that no one could find it because based on the size of this palace I don't know if I would even be able to find it again. So, I had quickly given up and started my walk back outside the palace. It was there that I spotted an area where you can store your bags so I did. I walked back to the start of the tour and then remembered that I forgot my camera so I went back to the storage place to find out that you can't take pictures inside anyways. So I again walked back to the line which I thought you could just buy your tickets there...  I was wrong. Thankfully I noticed this before making a fool out of myself when the man asked for my ticket. So I again walked back and then bought my ticket. Apparently I'm still a kid there, perfect! Saved me about 8 euros! I then walked back to the line and I was all set for this tour. Well it wasn't really a tour, I walked by myself through it but it's just easier to call it a tour. So anyways I was walking through this palace and wow it was a very nice house! But not going to lie.. I'd hate to live there! Everything is either glassed in or roped off so I wouldn't be able to get anywhere near it (obvious joke). Unfortunately no pictures allowed so I don't have anything to show everybody what it looks like. After I did my walk through I headed back to the subway and started my trip to  the Stephansdom Church. I got off the subway and the church was right there, how convienent! I right away pulled out my camera and snapped a couple pictures. I then found an entrance to what I thought was the front where I could leisurely walk through and look at stuff. It was far from that. I climbed up the tower on spiral stairs and man was it tight! If I walked straight with it then I took up almost the whole walkway so I stuck close to the side so that there was almost 2 lanes, typical Europe. Once I finally made it up to the top I realized how high I actually just climbed because there were only very small windows on the way up the tower. I had an amazing view once I got up to the top and once I had taken a couple pictures and caught my breath it was time to head back down. I walked down and once I finally go to the bottom (I timed it and it was about 5 minutes of me quickly going down steep spiral stairs) I started walking around the church and saw the real front entrance. So I went in there to take a look, and wow! What a nice church! I'll post the pictures below and you'll be able to see what I mean. After I finished walking around in the church I figured that I'd stick around and look around the city a little bit. I walked around for a while, checking out stores and doing some souvenir shopping. It was getting close to 1 and I was starting to get a little hungry. I saw some street meat being sold and they also sold beer there so I was going to have some sausage and attempt beer for lunch. While walking there I bumped into the 2 dutch girls that I had met on the train a few days ago. We were talking for a bit and it turned out that we were both about to go have lunch but they were planning to eat at a restaurant. They hadn't picked one yet but they ended up picking the one right beside us. We sat down and the waitress said that they only serve drinks not food where we were sitting but she said that there's a restaurant on the top floor of the building about 10m from us. We took the elevator to the 7th floor and sat outside for lunch. It was a good lunch, I wasn't too hungry so I just got a toasted ham and cheese sandwich. After lunch they wanted to look at shoes and I wasn't too interested in that nor did I know if they wanted me to stick around for longer than lunch or not. So we parted ways. I walked around a little bit more and bought some more stuff then I realized that I need to watch my spending so to lessen the urge I came back to my hostel. I got back shortly before 3 and had a necessary shower. But, before I could do that I needed to get towels so before I walked all the way to my hostel I went to Spar hoping that they'd have some towels today (I checked yesterday for towels so I could shower but was unsuccessful). I looked and didn't see any.... so, I improvised. I bought a pack of 10 dish towels and hoped that it'd be enough. It turned out to be more than enough and I only needed 2 so I'm set for the next 4 nights if need be. That's all for now. Good night.