Well, I was hoping that Terri would write tonight's post, but she has conked out, so I'll try to recount the day's events as best I can without her, and then let her edit in the morning.

Terri noticed this morning that her camera must not have been properly loaded, so she was pretty bummed that she's not going to get the photos she'd thought she'd gotten. The ones she'd really wanted were a lot of photos of the butterflies at the Schmetterling Haus we mentioned earlier. So the plan was to get the finished rolls developed, and if the Schmetterling Haus photos were missing, to go back and take more. So, after breakfast, we headed to a photo place we'd found out about, but went one stop too far on the tram, so we ended up walking back through the Stadtpark and taking some photos as we went.

We dropped off the film, and then took the tram to the Belvedere, which is a big palace just south of the inner part of town, built by Prince Eugene, after he beat back the Turks in 1683. It was out of town then, but since the city has expanded in the last 320 years, now it's pretty central. It's now mostly museums and gardens, but there's something about it that's not as meticulously well-kept as most of the other palaces and gardens around the city. Maybe we just hit it when they happened to have all the fountains drained, I don't know; that was just my impression. The museum we went to see, though, was another art museum; this one has a lot of older paintings, and some select turn of the century stuff, including a lot of the most famous Gustav Klimt paintings, like The Kiss. There was also a modern guy (30's - 90's) which Terri and I were pretty unimpressed with.

After that, we took the tram back up, and got some lunch at one of Vienna's many fine cafes, Cafe Pruckel. We then picked up the developed film (which was kind of hideously expensive; the rest are going to be developed back at Ferranti-Dege back in Cambridge), and as feared, the Schmetterling photos had not actually been taken. So, since our other big plan for the day was to go to MAK (I'll spare you the German: it's the museum of applied art), and on Tuesdays it's open until midnight, we went back to the Schmetterling Haus, and took some more butterfly photos. It was a little busier than last time, but we did see a few butterflies that had been hiding (or possibly, not-yet-emerged from their cocoon) last time. After we left, the Burggarten was full of teenagers who had just gotten out of school.

We headed back on foot, and decided to stop in at the internet cafe on the way, and upload some photos, and actually post last night's blog entry, and after that headed to MAK.

MAK was very cool; lots of Wiener Werkstatte furniture and designs. A few other exhibits, too, not all of which we went to. We had dinner at the MAK cafe, which came recommended. It was pretty good. By the time we finished dinner, managed to flag down our waiter to get the check, and headed out, it was already approaching 10pm, so we decided to head back to the hotel and rest up for what's going to be a pretty busy day tomorrow. We're planning to hit the central cemetery (which is huge; it's bigger than the city center, and there are 3 million people buried there: more than currently live here), walk along the Danube, check out a nifty, old mechanised clock, walk around some other older parts of town, find the statue of Nathan the Wise (in case you don't know, Terri's father's name is Nathan Wise), go to the Naschmarkt, and the Secession building.