I'm going to Vienna!!!--it's the brainwashing (updated)

I wrote this last post night, when Leah and I were planning on going to Vienna for the weekend. We got up at the obscene hour of 5:15 this morning, and went to the bus station to get a ticket to go Vienna. We could get a ticket to leave at 8:00 am, but then we would have to come back on the 8:00 bus from Vienna tomorrow morning! We wouldn't have anywhere near a full 24 hours in Vienna! In the early morning light, we decided to cut our loses, enjoy Prague and got back on the Metro to go back to the apartment. Everything always happens for a reason; I was on less than an hour and a half of sleep, I know better what to do the next time I want to day trip, tomorrow is supposed to be the only nice day in Prague for the rest of the week. Plus when I got back and went in the kitchen, my water bottle was still sitting on the table. Clearly, I was not supposed to go to Vienna!

So I am breaking my own rule of day tripping out of town when I only have one weekend in Prague. But it's not my fault, it's the brainwashing from five years of German class.
All that said, I'm going to Vienna!!!! Oh, Wien! I know, I haven't seen much of Prague at all, being sick this week. But I still have another week! I am this close to Vienna, and after five years of being brainwashed in my German classes, I can hear the call (or the sound of music) to go Vienna. Plus I am looking forward to *almost* understand what people are saying, and being able to read the street signs, and in general not feeling like such an idiot wandering the streets, not being able to decipher any local language. I know I will stumble, I know I will make mistakes, and I know that I have not really spoken any German in over a year, but it will be amazing!
I am staying at a hostel, and I splurged on a single room. The hostel seems to be the same deal as Alma Mater, so it should be okay. Apparently there are few hostels that are close to the center. Leah and I are going in on the bus (at an obscene hour) and coming back on the bus at 5:00 pm Sunday, but she is going to visit one of her good friends, so I will probably go around by myself, which is fine with me because that way no one can laugh at me when I horribly mess up my German! This is my first time in a German-speaking country since actually seriously studying German (when I went to Germany when I was 13, I only had the introductory middle school German). So this is a really big thing for me! I am really excited! This is going to be amazing! AMAZING!
P.S.: Thanks to you guys who have been especially cheering me on this week and whose voices I can hear in my head all the time (or maybe it's just the im-ing): Sarah, for being my lovely Austrian cheerleader and urging me to go; Kellie, for knowing exactly how I can be and reminding me that I should be safe every time she talks to me; Molly for just telling me to go for it and have a blast; and Mom, for doing all of the above! Love you all!