The Wienerwald

Before I show you a few beautiful pictures, I just wanted to talk briefly about how funny it is that everything that is Viennese is called "Wiener_____".  Obviously it isn't very strange to a person from Wien to call something like the forest the Wienerwald or the philharmonic the Wiener Philharmoniker.  To a person from the U.S.A. who is twenty-two but has the maturity of a twelve-year-old boy, however, this can get pretty entertaining.  Fortunately it is pronounced "Vvvvvvviener" since it's German, so I don't usually laugh out loud when I have to say it.  I'm posting this mainly for my family, who would also think this is hilarious.

Today Adam, Daniel, Ben, Chris, and I went to the woods on the edge of the city and walked around for about 4 hours.  It was the coolest thing I have done in Vienna hands down.  I love being outside, especially in the fall, and today was so beautiful!  It was so nice to just bum around the woods and hang out for the afternoon.  We saw a lot of wild boars, and decided that we felt some kind of intrinsic animalistic connection to them.  Boars are really funny looking, slightly intimidating, and especially cool because they actually look JUST like Pumba.  Here are a few pictures to make you want to go walking in your local forest.