WU Ball in Vienna

Train ride through Winter Wonderland

First travel of the year brought me to Vienna for the Ball of the WirtschaftsUniversität.
AIESEC Alumni Austria organized a program for us.

State Opera

We met Friday evening for dinner at Inigo in the first district and afterwards I stayed in the biggest room of a Motel One ever.

Motel One

Saturday morning we had 2h of dance training at Tanzschule Wagner - the instructor taught us 3 out of 6 parts of the Quadrille and the Viennese Waltz.

Tanzschule Wagner

We had lunch at the Griechenbeisl and of course I went for the world famous Viennese Schnitzel and it was delicious.

Wiener Schnitzel - Yummy

Beer window

It was a very windy and cold afternoon and I had hurt my ankle earlier in the week, so I skipped most of the guided tour. Instead I enjoyed a nice raspberry cake and a hot tea at Café Oberlaa.

Hofburg - where we danced later on

The rest of the afternoon was spent getting ready for the evening: hair, make-up and dress.

Hair style: done!

We are ready!

Finally after 8 pm we left for the Hofburg and the Ball. After nine, the student couples paraded in for the opening dance.

Parade

Made it to the Hofburg

Ball Room

We went to the Zeremoniensaal where our tables were reserved. Our band was playing all kinds of music to dance 💃 with. So we did Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox and many more.

Zeremoniensaal

After midnight, we went to the bigger ball room, waited and saw the artistic show - my feet took that part no well at all. Finally after half an hour, we could really enter the dance floor for the quadrille. We signed up and the master of ceremonies announced the different steps to take as a dry-run and then we did it with music. We did 4 different parts and the last time every round faster in kind of battle with the orchestra.

Dancing the Quadrille

We repeated this a bit later in our own room and wandered the place in search of good photo locations. And then took quite a bit to do them. We lasted until 4 o'clock when they started to get rid off us.

Heidi and I on the grand staircase 

The next morning or better to say lunch time, we met all survivors at Café Landtmann for brunch.