Vienna.

Ok, I lied about Vienna.
The day after Halloween ending up being a public holiday...everything was closed. No groceries, no Naschmarkt, no perfectly organized day. We ended up subwaying around for groceries and having a much later start than planned. The touristy stuff a few stations from our hostel was open though. We saw Schonnbrunn Palace and took goofy photos on the stairs. We walked the palace grounds and gardens and discovered at the back of the grounds-- Vienna Zoo, the oldest zoo in the world. ...
Forget the castle tours, Ash and I went to the zoo.
It was huge. And freezing. And all in German. We had fun anyways.
We saw sealions that were so playful when we visited, they were swimming and splashing and attracting a huge crowd of people. We saw penguins that made us laugh out loud, hopping and waddling around...I have a video that explains this better...so cute! We saw a massive giraffe that stood four feet from us and chewed enthusiastically at his grass. AND, we saw a red lemur that curiously and fearlessly played with us through his little window. Red pandas, regular pandas, otters, koalas, rhinos, flamingos, pelicans, bears, fish, bugs, tigers, cheetahs and deer of all sorts...we saw it all. Except elephants! The zoo closed before we could make it all the way around its huge grounds.
At night we visted the Haus der Musik which was not what we expected and actually just hilariously weird. It was all about how sound is created and travels through our bodies, and they had exhibits dedicated to the great composers of Austria, Beethoven and Mozart (and others that I can't remember off the top of my head). But you had to stick your head in these set-ups in the walls, and make recordings of noises in the "sound trees", and there was one wonky room that was supposed to represent what it sounded like to be a baby in a womb. The whole place was like something Hunter S. Thompson would create. ...Take that for judgement as you will.
The next day in Vienna we did the things closer to our hostel. The Naschmarkt was really cool, everyone selling homemade goodies from stuffed peppers and olives to candied dried fruit to teas and hats and gloves...loads of stuff worth looking at. Didn't buy anything...should've bought a really warm hat though, because we froze in Vienna. We visited the shopstreet and ate Happy Noodles (for you Mireille!) a warm and welcome saucy stirfry to fight the cold.
In the afternoon we visited MuseumsQuartier which is literally a block of museums. Everything was pretty to look at, but we didn't throw ourselves into life in Vienna the way we did in Prague. Exhausted from our weekend in Prague, we slept early most nights in Vienna. At the end of our experience, I can't say that this city stole our hearts like some of the others (sorry Mireille). Maybe we just need to spend more time there and really immerse ourselves. ...Then again, maybe not.