24 Hours: To Vienna and Back

For your enjoyment, a play-by-play account of our trip to Vienna on Sunday. Hold on to your hats!
14:00 Saturday afternoon, in our kitchen:
Geo: "Let's take a trip."
Krissy: "Okay. When and where?"
Geo: "Tonight, after the opera...how about Vienna."
19:00 Don Giovanni at the Estates Theater in Prague
22:30 Dinner afterwards with friends
23:30 Dash to train station to get on train with tickets one minute before it takes off
03:00 Transfer somewhere in the Czech Republic. It was cold.
03:45 Back in the train and off to Austria
06:00 Arrive in Vienna
06:15 Breakfast in the train station (first cup of cofee); plan they day (thank you, Rick Steves and Marc and Ivan)
07:45 Depart for town with an all-day transfer pass
08:30 Use tram to see "the ring" in Vienna
09:00 Begin tours of the Hofburg Palace--the Imperial Palace, including the silverware/porcelain collection and the Sisi museum (dedicated to Emperor Franz Josef's wife)
11:30 Snack at Hofburg cafe (strudel and espresso!)
12:00 Tour of the Treasury at Hofburg Palace
13:00 Ponder what to do next...Lipizzaner horses, famous opera house...settled on opera
13:30 Decided to finish a school assignment first, found an internet cafe to take care of business
14:00 Time for lunch--walked around until we found a great Japanese/Chinese buffet (all you can eat!)
14:50 Dash off to the opera house, but there were not going to be any tours today :(
15:00 Boarded double-decker bus for a one hour tour of "the ring" (I dozed off for about half the ride and Geo slept a few minutes too)
16:00 Starbucks (cookies and espresso--can one have too much caffeine in one day?)
16:20 Haus der Musik: a very interactive music museum that we could have spent all day in, but we only had a little more than an hour
17:30 Begin heading back to the train station
18:30 Board train going to Prague
22:50 Arrival, but 15 minutes late, causing us to miss the train back to our town, so...
23:10 Snack time at McDonald's on Wenceslas Square in Prague (salads and water, to detox after all the sugar and coffee we had all day)
0:11 Train back home departs
0:59 Home at last
Tired? We were too. One thing we learned is you shouldn't take an overnight train unless you have the possibility of sleeping for at least 6 hours (Vienna is too close to Prague). I took some pictures, and I think I can get those posted with a borrowed cable to upload them, so I should get those on soon.