Rory McIlroy

We are back in Innsbruck and had a great time in Wien. Our first night we roomed with two british girls from London and two guys from the USA. The guys left that morning and two new guys came in. One of them was Tom from London. It was hilarious how British he was. He would say BRILLIANT and THATS WICKED FANTASTIC all the time. The other guy was Rick from Amsterdam. He was travelling to Linz to see his girlfriend. On Saturday we went to the Leopold Museum, which had many pieces of art from the 1900s to the 1930s. There was a lot of Klimt and Shiele paintings as well as many others from the Vienna Secession. After the Leopold we headed over to the MuMoK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien is the full name). This was perhaps the best\strangest art museum experience I have ever had. The top floors were dedicated to this Abstract artist who, in my professional art opinion, just scribbled on canvas. The other floors were called Mind Expanders and were filled with photos and films of performance art from the seventies. It was very strange\hilarious\uncomfortable. It was funny because there were two pieces that I had studied in art history last year there. That night we ate dinner at the bar in our hostel. At the bar there were these Irish guys that looked at me and started yelling THATS BLOODY RORY MCILROY! They were really drunk and thought that I was the professional golfer from Ireland and that I was skipping The Open for a vacation in Austria. RORY WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE OPEN! They asked me if I knew who Rory McIlroy was and I told them I AM. The next day we left early in the morning on a train to Salzburg to see the sights and go on the SOUND OF MUSIC tour. It was pretty great. They had an on-bus bar on the tour bus and beers were 1.5 €. We sang as we traveled through the living hills.

-Travis