Vienna - Day 5

On Sunday, we first went to the downtown area to view a few more buildings that we had missed on our earlier excursions: the Parliament building and the New Town Hall building. Both were extremely beautiful, and we enjoyed the lack of crowds that goes with an early Sunday morning. Here's a few photos:

Parliament

New Town Hall. I don't think it's that new. Should probably be called Newer. But it is gorgeous :).

Carsten loves to drink water from fountains.

So pretty :).

Then we took the public circle tram which goes on the route of where the city wall used to be, so you get to see a lot of things without walking. Our good, sunny weather was short lived, but we elected to continue on to Prater Park anyway, which has a huge ferris wheel and an adventure park of sorts. And what did we find in the park? A carousel with a 'TRACTOR!' on it, which someone wanted to ride and ride and ride and ride. And I got to ride a crazy, crazy ride which was fun. It was like the swings ride, the one where you just go in a circle, except this one went WAY high. It would probably never be allowed in the US, but that made it that much more fun :). See photos below:

Carsten LOVED this. We had to do it twice :).

Happy kid.

Swings of doom.

It started raining a bit, so we headed back to our apartment to give Carsten a nap and hopefully wait for better weather for the afternoon. Carsten took a 3 hour nap (amazing!), so Andy and I got some good relaxing and packing in while he napped. We then headed back out to the Swedenplatz area for some pizza and gelato. It wasn't raining until after we had our pizza, so we had a fairly pathetic 'picnic' using our umbrellas to keep our food dry. Admit it, you're jealous ;).

Rainy picnic.

The gelato was delicious, and once again, Carsten wanted only the cone, not the ice cream. This goes perfectly with me because I have always disliked all cones except for waffle cones. So, now I can eat my ice cream and he can eat the cone :). After ice cream we went back to our apartment and packed for our departure on Monday afternoon. It was a great day despite the rainy weather :).