Danube testing round two

I'm on a train to Budapest right now and I can't sleep unlike the 5 other guys in the train room. Luckily I have this app on my phone to keep me occupied. On of the best $2 I have ever spent.

Yesterday was a very long day so I didn't get a chance to write anything about what we did. First we got going at around 8 am and we had gone out the night before until 6 am so this didn't feel exactly great but not bad. We were going to meet with the department of the government that tests the bathing areas in Vienna, which is pretty impressive that Ferdi could line something like that up. The people knew English and gave a presentation on the regulation and how the EU will be getting more strict on the regs soon. It was a pretty good presentation but I have noticed that pretty much everywhere in Vienna, air conditioning is not used, including this place. It was a hot day too so the place got really stuffy.

After two presentations they showed us their whole facility. It was like a 5 story building with about 3 labs on each floor. Most of the microbiological stuff that they talked about was pretty far over my head but I could follow along. Absorbing the knowledge is a totally different story. Mostly they bowed us the different ways they have for testing (water samples, fish, stuff like that).

After the rest of the tour we went outside for some group photos because this as going to be some kind of publicity for the organization (MA 39). We took cabs to this place where is one of the most popular vacation spots in Vienna. The name of the place tranlates to Goode Island and it has been around for like 100 years. We get there and it's like the skies opened up and shows us the way.

It was so sunny out and we were surronded by every type of pool immaginable. Wave pool, lap pool, natural water, kiddie pool with flow valves, and that wasn't even the best part. They gave us free lunch and then we listened to the manager talk about the history of the place.

It was cool but we were all dying hot and wanted to go swimming. First the goverent people wants to show us how they tested water and get some photos again. After that we were starting to get antsy becuase it as like 80 degrees out. That's web the managaer hooked us up and allowed us to use lockers, go on the climbing course, a bunch of post cards, and stay all day for free.

Me august roc justin travis and lovett jumped on the climbing course first and it's a good thing too because it was pretty difficult, even for us. It was wicked fun but I was cautious because of my shoulder. The guy that was training us was named manuel and e was ok at English but we had to help him along. The climbing oil about 3 hours because there were some really young girls on the course ahead of us. The obstacles were either a balance thing or a zip line called "the flying fox". By the end of the course we were dying of dehydration, sweaty, and super hot. We took so long that when we got to the swimming areas, every other person in the group was getting ready to leave. We stayed until around 8 and tried out the water and some vollyball. The water was so nice after the climb that we didn't want to leave.

When we got back to the hotel, we got ready to go out one last time. We started drinking in the hotel but once we got too loud we headed out. We went to this place called Miami Vice which was a total dive bar but it was fun and of course good beer.