Day 3 in Vienna and time with family in Germany

Alright, before we start with the touristy stuff, I have a funny story about Andrew. Apparently Andrew sometimes has a tendency to sleeptalk, so a couple of times in the middle of the night, I heard him talking. The first time, he started talking about how he needed to go somewhere. I said, "Andrew, what are you talking about?" He said, "I don't know, I'm probably just sleeptalking." Then, later, he started mumbling, then I heard him say, "Oh my guy!" which is something he's started saying lately, but I guess it's second nature now. So I went back to sleep, and the next day we woke up and I saw Andrew's fly was down. The thing is, he took his pants off the night before to go to sleep, so I said to him, "Andrew, why are your pants on?" He looked down and said, "I don't know! What the heck!" Apparently he had put his pants on in the middle of the night, and he didn't even know it. He didn't remember anything he said. It was pretty funny.

Anyway, the last day in Vienna, we wanted to visit Shönbrunn Palace. We decided to rent the nifty free bikes again, and we went and saw that. We had to catch our train at 11:45, so we just went there and looked around. It was pretty fun. We went back and caught our train. We were supposed to meet my mother's cousin and her kids at the train station. She gave Andrew a picture, but we didn't know how old it was, or if they looked different or something. Andrew said it would have been hilarious if we were just looking around at everyone, then we saw someone who looked just like mom. We would have said, "Oh! There she is." That would have been funny, but we found them because they looked just like they did in the picture. So we got to the house, and everyone was very friendly. Lisa and Ellen are our second cousins, so they are our age, and they took us to this mini-Oktoberfest kind of thing. It was really fun. We went on a really freaky ride, then we went to the beertent, where the beer only comes in liter-sized glasses. It was pretty ridiculous. They had a band playing, so everyone got up onto the benches and was singing with the band. It seemed like everyone was friends with everyone else, even though we didn't even know anyone's name. It was cool. After that we went to bed.

The next day, we had a big breakfast, which was really nice, and we went to meet more of our family. My grandmother had 4 brothers and sisters, and they all have kids, so we met more of our family, but certainly not everyone. All of the kids spoke pretty good English, so they were able to translate to the older ones for us. We met my grandma's last living brother, Otto. He was really funny because the only English phrase he knew was "I speak English!" We had a great time, and everyone was really happy to see us. We went to one of our cousin's birthday parties. He was turning 48. There was so much food, and there was a lot of beer and everyone was having fun. Andrew and I decided we wanted to introduce hacky-sack into Germany, so we played with everyone there. They were really good because I think everyone plays soccer. After this, we went to a place to watch the soccer game of Germany against Poland. Apparently it is Euro 2008 right now, so it's a huge deal. Everyone was decked out in black, red, and yellow. It was fun to watch and cheer for the team because everyone had so much passion. Germany ended up winning 2-0, so the streets were crowded with people honking and waving German flags. It was really fun. We went to bed after that, and now we are going to be on our way back to Munich. Awesomeness.