bring pancakes to austria revolution needed

at a checkpoint with teams and red bull wings team austria girls (drive the rb trucks like i used to do) in Gratz, we swapped 3 red bull each for a buffet at a restaurant nearby, and it was breakfast buffet with pancakes i was so happy and a austria red bull girl was like what are these? i was like pancakes! aren't these common here? she said she has only seen them one other time!!

theres a team of guys from austria who are carrying around 'zitpher bobs' (austrian sleds). one guy on the team named bernie m.c.'s red bull events in austria like i have done in the states-- its funny cuz him and his friends always break out in random popular american tunes with anything that reminds them of the tune. like... they see falling leaves starting singing billy talent "fallin leaves fallin leaves falling leaves on the ground" or someones like put your hands in your pocket, they sang... "cuz ive got one and in my pocket and the other one nah nah nah nah nah..." but only a quick one liner from each song its funny! american influence ha. saw girls at random austria restaurant/bar singing bday song in english (german is their main language) and i was told that its almost always sung in english here. they swear in english too

my birthday in austria!!

yesterday almost ran out of gas today! we had less than 10 km left on our tank, rolled into the gas station at 2am, none of our 5 credit cards worked and the guy next to us who didnt speak english put it on his card and we gave him cash, we kept telling him we worked for red bull and he kept thinking we were offering it to him he's like no thanks

its my bday today!! got a flare on a piece of cake in vienna austria for my bday buffet, seriously it was like a serious scary firework in my cake it was crazy-- i got a cardboard bday hat in german like looks like its from burger king haha i wore it all day and i will save it forever. ill add it to my collection of bday gear (like my bday light up pin from 5 years ago) that i still carry with me in my purse incase i want free dessert at a restaurant ill whip it out and make it my birthday

eiffel tower is sparkly blue at night!

i keep trying to collect a full red bull from each country but i keep drinking them after i buy them ugh i drank italy's and i poured switzerland's on a cow. i programmed the gps system girl's voice in the car to have an british accent, she keeps saying "stay on this road for a long time" in her accent its funny. went through the coolest mountains in switzerland today!! a lady at breakfast was like, u going to switzerland? go to interlaken and my mom texted me and said the same thing so it must be good and it was, i really like getting there more actually, the houses and small towns in the mountains were amazing. for some reason i thought people here wore bonnets.

got near paris today-- the guy at the hotel check-in is from bolivia and knows russian and said when he went to study in russia and started talking russian in the airport they were like who is this latino man speaking russian he must be a spy and they kicked him out of the country. the hotel elevator had room for one person at a time it was like riding in a coffin, stepped in dog poop once yesterday. once today. yesterday i cleaned out the crevices of the bottom of my shoes with the hotel cup ring. gross. wow i just looked out my hotel window, its night and the eifel tower is lit up bright blue and started sparkling with white lights all over it!!! and i had no idea it was so close to me!!! i was like omg thats the eiffel tower outside my window!!! ok seriously one of the coolest things ive ever seen in my life, the 3 coolest things i've seen i think are

1. the sparkling eiffel tower at night right now out my window
2. climbing to the top of the sand dunes in peru with my peru friends in the middle of the night, and seeing in all directions the oasis's and towns lit up in the dessert valleys
3. the first moments of falling from an airplane
4. beach in california at night with my family, algae plankton lighting up the sand and water (invisible algae that lit up if you touched it) so the water and sand light up where you touch it. footprints lit up. waves glowed. so effing cool.

this is amazing seriously i'm so lucky to see the eiffel tower right now! when buck was time lapsing the tower today i decided to jog between video shoots in my canada walmart boots and jeans and everything. i jogged around the eiffel tower twice! thats when the dog poop happened.

we have a list of SBMs (college kids who rep red bull for their campus-- i did this for 2 years) from every country here, been trying to call them as we get to their city to meet them or have them show us around- and i called the one in paris, he cant speak english so handed it to his girlfriend or something, im like uh hi, i work for red bull in the u.s. and wanna meet your friend. she was like we are busy, i felt like saying im not hitting on your boyfriend

dream car

after austria we went to italy and I'm having fun talking spanish to italians cuz the languages are similar so we kinda understand each other. found a castle and went to venice and the water streets were so effing cool and we payed for a gondola ride so we could get footage of me explaining 'red bull can you make it' from the boat and the gondola driver let me paddle. random: me and liz met ppl in machu picchu that knew harry potter and got the police called on them cuz they prank called his house asking how 'potions' class was. i just walk over to get internet code from sleeping buck and his key is chilling in his hotel door. s-m-r-t. oh and then the gondola guy (he had to walk with me to get money from a bank to pay him) was like, come with me in my motorboat to my house not far from here, but just me and you, not Book (that's how he pronounced bucks name, like the u sound from you) i was like only if you have kittens haha just kidding but i know if that was my friend lauren she would say that.

and yesterday in trento we were going the wrong way on a one way and a nice young policeman came and tried to tell us in italian that you can't drive on this sidewalk full of people and he gave us a map and was so nice and i reversed (without stalling)

for years me and liz have talked about our dream cars: look at the pics.... hers... and mine.... except she wants hers green and i want mine a light blue and she just got hers last week and 5 hours after she got it she got rear-ended by a drunk driver and got her car towed!! she gets it back in a week   ... cant wait to call shotgun when i get back wee!!

cake for lunch and dinner in austria

when i woke this morning i opened the curtain to let the bright sun in to hit my unadjusted eyes then jumped back in bed startled like someone else did it or something i was like why did that scare me i did it? while jogging this morning (austria jog so cool and pretty!!) i saw a market thing and wanna get my mom a christmas ornament cuz she only likes ones from europe haha but sorry mom i dont run with my bank card. couldnt figure out the shower today for the life of me so i stuck my head in the sink. (i call front desk-- how do you turn on shower? push the button. i swear there is no button i looked everywhere and forever) got rental car and its shift by the way. only drove stick 3 times before: once in highschool for spring break in mexico when me jenny and katie rented a jeep and i have video of us killing it the whole time, and with nascar (also killing it a lot but didnt make the video ha) and t. pastrana's rally car (did pretty good), and now (doing real bad). buck had the camera out and i stalled EVERYwhere like in the middle of intersections and it was so bad people were honking at me all the time! and then we went to this austrian restaurant that had a salad bar thing with desserts next to it so i decided to try a little sliver of each of the 8 desserts and then when i went to pay the bill said 8 desserts for 4 euros each cuz i guess they weren't part of the buffet so i spent like 30 bucks on desserts so i ate those for dinner too. we going to innsbruck

roadies rip-off

and ha this is random, found out today that (they have flugtags in austria) a girl who works for red bull here, and is my age, did a 'red bull flugtag on the road' show' totally copying 'Red Bull Flugtag Roadies' show I did this summer but hers is in german- its so funny to me its like mcdonalds in the u.s. versus canada haha !! i have no idea what she's saying in it even but i guess she saw me at hq when i was there today and someone told me about her later... so i had to google stalk her show here i found it: make your own comparisons!  here is hers  and mine

hosting a Red Bull show in Europe!!

18 hours in airports today to get to europe!! didnt sleep cuz i was so excited and cuz kids kept kicking my chair and on my first flight i sat between 2 men and the one to my right (cuz i was tired) kept being like, just put the arm rest up between us and nestle yourself on my shoulder. im like no thanks. he's like just do it please. ew no.

landed in germany, took a little hopper plane to austria and went straight to red bull world HQ in Fuschl!!! it's so cool it looks like 2 mini volcanoes in the middle of a lake plus it's surrounded by austrian mountains it's so COOL!! I'll add my own pics later but here are some I found on google to show you... here's one... and this one... and here's the city of Fuschl, and here's a cat 

i've been keeping my eye out for the red bull founder Dietrich Matashitz cuz he has a glass office at the top of the red bull volcano and shows up randomly, so far no luck boo!

so then camera guy Buck and I met up with Michi and Pierre (producers of the show and event 'Red Bull Can You Make It" that I'm here to host) and we ate lunch and talked about the show details- i had these meat filled puffy bread balls and sour kraut and now i know what jet lag is-- it's midnight here, and it's 3 pm in minnesota!

and oh i listened to german radio and learned some german phrases and took pictures of german signs and watched german people behaving german i love it!!! and i watched german tv.

this week buck's and my job is to take our rental car and start driving around europe to get some b-roll---weeee!! tomorrow i think is italy!!-- and some time this week i might stop and say hi to my relatives who live somewhere around here haha! they dont know me really i'll have to explain how i'm related... which ill have to figure out too...

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