Friday, February 28, 2014

Getting Lost in a Country where we can't say anything

 Today we started our day 0 stuff, like intros, scouting for locations, dancing for promos, etc. Our first stop was the Parliament building which is located across the street from the Austrian Imperial Palace. I saw this statue and thought it was funny because it looks like he's punching horse but I know that he probably had reins in his hands back in the day.
 The parliament building was huge and beautiful and damn it, we didn't have time to go inside. I did get some nice exterior shots and the crew got some nice B roll so I'll be able to look at it in a later life I guess.
 Since it's cold, none of the fountains are on. I would definitely try to come back to Vienna in the spring or summer only. The Parliament building is guarded by Athena. Pretty lass!
 I also liked this poor gargoyle. Check out the petina!
 And the base of the Athena statue. I will definitely be back. I will also be back to see the Spanish Riding School horses and to see a Mozart concert. My group couldn't be swayed into going to a concert as standing room was 23 euros a person. Alas, I'll go with Aaron when we come here.

 Oh and here's the Austrian Imperial Palace, the site of our masked ball on the 3rd of March. Amazing! I can't believe I get to do this!
Here's the riding school. We passed by some horse stables and I saw one with a long face…(haha) and named him 'Hans' and made a whole back story. Hans is a sad depressed horse because his stable faces away from the tourists, he's 3rd chorus horse from the back right, and he doesn't get as many oats as the other horses.

Lainey, myself, and Marcus then split up from the boys so we could film ourselves trying on dresses for the ball. They were seriously the most expensive dresses we've ever tried on. I wanted to try on a tangerine one that was mermaid style but it was €10,000! No joke! The lady asked me what our budgets were and I quickly said "we don't have a budget. Our boyfriends just told us to pick dresses out!" It was really nice to be girls again and just try expensive things on. The boys went to get tuxes. After dresses, we headed back to the train and got lost. We didn't know how to get home, where we lived, or eve what district we lived in. Lainey gave Jonathan a nice talking to when we finally got home.

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