Kitchen Party!

There was a small party in the kitchen Friday night. It was fun.

This morning Péter invited me to go with his friends and family to see the Hundertwasser Haus and the Treasury. The Hundertwasser Haus is architecture to which I can relate. From what I can tell, there are three buildings designed by Hundertwasser in Wien: The KunstHausWien (a museum), the Hundertwasser Haus (a low income housing project), and the Fernwärme (where they burn their garbage). Hundertwasser thought straight lines and flat floors weren't very humanizing, and this shows in his architecture. The buildings are a hodge podge of colors and shapes and the floors are uneven, which makes walking on them quite the experience.

In the Treasury, which was in the Hofburg palace (famous because it was the residence of the Hapburgs and Hitler gave a speach to a huge crowd from the balcony of the new building in 1938 when he declared Austria and Germany to be one). In the Treasury are a lot of relics and clothes. For me, the coolest things in there were the cradle for the child of Napoleon and Marie Louise and the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. All in all, it was a lot of fun.