Tortillas!

"CrossFit has the potential to change the popular cultural perception of what exercise actually means over the next decade, and I will watch with delight as selectorized leg machines are melted down into more useful items like re-bar and manhole covers." 

- Mark Rippetoe

Ok, enough about CrossFit, I'll post up the WOD at the end of the blog like I usually do but I'll focus the majority of this blog on Vienna and what we've been up to. I should have posted these updates in the last few blogs so I'll jump right in. We've got our cell phone situation sorted out. iPhones from the states dont work here since they are locked, so if I were to use mine I'd just be billed by AT&T for the international rate of $1.39/minute. It's not as simple as dropping in a new SIM card. So we bought some cheap-o prepaid phones from the local billa store for $20, with it you get 100 minutes and you can recharge it when it runs out. Easy way to go since you need an address to buy a contract phone, and a bank account, both of which are still things we need! We also got data plans on our iPads so we can text and skype everyone. Cell/Data plans are cheap here! Plus they work everywhere, coverage is much better than in the states, it even works in the subway! AT&T needs to step their game up!

One of my biggest concerns moving here was missing out on some good mexican food and watching movies in german. To my relief there is a english theatre here as well as a good mexican market (Casa Mexico)! The mexican food they sold was ok, not as spicy as what I'm used to and it reminds me a little of tex-mex, but it's not bad. They sell mexican beer, hot sauce, tortillas, etc. I was bummed over their salsa. Their "hot" salsa should really be re-labeled as mild. I suppose they do this to market everything to a broader market. I was sold on the place, at least mexicans work there! We have yet to try the mexican restaurant that is on the same corner, we will soon, and I'll be sure to post an update on how the food was. The english movie theatre was a relief! We watched The Dictator when it was probably 90 degrees out so the AC felt awesome. It's actually been in operation since the twenty's and has 3 screens. Plus they serve beer there, why can't american theatres serve beer!?!?!?!

Since the pool in the 19th district is one of the nicest in the city we decided to check it out on Wednesday. I'll explain the "districts" in a later blog. But the pool had awesome views overlooking the city. It cost about 5 euros to get in, beer was expensive there, and limited to three types: Heinekin, Corona, and Budweiser. No not the "king of beers" but the czech budvisar. Still, it was lame - I need something more than pilsners! The pool itself was pretty cool, actually it was three pools and a few ice cream shops, beer stands, etc. 

So far as the booze in the city is concerned, I can say that it got the best of us Wednesday night. We hit up a the Fuhrgassl-Huber wine tavern on the fringes of the 19th district. Four of us went out and three were left at the end of the night, after a few hours we solved all the worlds problems ;-) In total we went through about 6 bottles of wine, split three ways, we were pretty drunk after a few hours. By the time we left we got drenched, it just started pouring rain! Thunder, lightening, rain, something we see in SoCal once every few years.

Speaking of bars, we hit up a cool "beach bar" the other afternoon at the schweidenplatz subway stop, right along the danube canal. Every summer the city trucks in sand and builds areas for outside beach bars. It's a cool spot people run/bike/skateboard along. They had a much better beer selection than the pools did. I'll have to start updating the blog with beer reviews!

WOD:
Rest!!!