Travel Journal: Day #5 (Austria)

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Emily and I kept waking up last night because we had these two annoying flies landing on us. They were so aggressive! Once again, I didn’t set an alarm and woke up to the sound of the sheep and rooster outside. After breakfast and coffee (I actually miss coffee at home), I went for a run. It was beautiful and the weather was nice—just a little bit cloudy—but it was so hard to breathe! I mean I’m probably out of shape so I can’t totally blame it on the altitude but it really was difficult to breathe. But I did feel refreshed after a forty minute run/walk by myself.

In the afternoon, we walked two miles to the next town over with the petting zoo / mating donkeys / ice cream / etc. You could pay to fish there so we rented four fishing poles and caught eight fish! I caught one but immediately felt bad when we had to bash it’s head with a club. We then had ice cream and saw the pig/hog with her 8-9 piglets. They looked like little spotted dalmatians – they were sooooo cute!

For dinner we had the fish and it was really good but I was scared of the fish bones. We fed the scraps to the barn cats (they have like 5-6 barn cats here).