WOW! This trip was probably one of my favorites! It was so much fun! Each day was completely different! The first day we were in Salzburg, we went on a Sound of Music Tour and got to go to each scene of the movie and it was so neat to be there in real life! We went to the back of the VanTrapp house, the lake in their backyard, the trees where the kids hung out of, the gazebo where they sang "I am 16 going on 17", the church in Mondsee where they got married, and the 5 scenes in the Mirabell Gardens! It was so fun to sing the songs in each place! My friend Teal ran through a field in Mondsee and sang "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music"! We got her on tape! Ha! Then we climbed up to the Fortress on top of the city and got to see the Nonnburg Abbey and a great view of the surrounding Alps!
On Friday, we walked around town and saw the house where Mozart lived and then went to a cafe on top of a hotel and had a great view of the Fortress and of the mountains around Salzburg! Then in the afternoon, we had a salt mine tour. Little did we know that it was in Germany! That's right! We got to go to GERMANY! Two trips in one. Two countries in one day! Woo hoo! We drove by the base of the mountain where Hitler's Eagle Nest is and got to see it from a distance. Not that I wanted to get any closer! Then we went to a little German town called Burchesgaden (I can't spell it) and we got to go on an underground tour of the salt mines! I had no idea what to expect, but it was better than anything I could have expected! It was so neat! We got to take a miner's train down a shaft and it was pitch black. There were no walls on the train either. We basically just sat on a bench facing forward and held onto the person in front of us. It was so fun. They had fake explosions go off periodically throughout the tour. I jumped evertime and grabbed the person in front of me! We got to go down a miner's slide and it was pretty fast and long! It was so fun! We went down as a group! We also got to ride across a salt lake on a boat and while we were pulled across, there was a light show going on around us on the walls of the mine. It was so neat! Then we got to the other side and got to taste clean salty water! Eww! Then we took the train back to the beginning! I think dad and Caleb would have loved it even more b/c it showed all the science involved with the making and production of salt and then it showed how the salt is pumped and how a rig moves all of it. I didn't understand all of it though, b/c our tour guide only spoke German! Ha! There were English audio tours, but it was a lot of facts and I was more interested in the light shows! It was really funny though, because I jokingly decided to "translate" to my group what I thought our guide was saying, but I really had no idea what he was saying. My friends thought it was really funny, b/c I was saying random things. But I finally decided to stop "translating" when an English family turned to me to ask what he said. Hahaha they thought I had been translating the whole time! ahahhahahah it was so funny. I just made something up and then decided not to "translate" anymore. I was just doing it for my friends, but apparently others were listening too!
We decided to got to Zell am See on Saturday! I'm so glad we did! The train ride was gorgeous! I can't even begin to describe how pretty it was to be following a river next to the Alps in Austria! I keep having to pinch myself while I'm over here to make sure I'm actually awake and not dreaming! We got to Zell am See and had lunch by the lake! (GORGEOUS!) If you've seen Band of Brothers, the lake that the Majors swim in at the end is the lake in Zell am See. We also went up to a lookout point that looked out over the city, the lake, and the surrounding Alps mountains! Then Briana and I (yes, there is another girl named Briana and her middle name is the same as mine too! Crazy) anyways, we decided to go hiking! We hiked all the way until we got to the top of the ski lift that they use in the winter time. We climbed until we reached the first patch of snow. We also took our pictures on the ski lift while wearing shorts! A little ironic! The view we had was picturesque! It could have been a postcard! We just got back to Oxford a few hours ago (Sunday) and I'm dreading doing my homework. Guess I got a little spoiled while I was in the Alps in Austria and Germany!
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Well we just got finished skipping through your photos from Austria...so many breathtaking scenes. Once again an action packed trip. Wondered about the levitation photos in the garden of antigravity. I was surprised that there was not more snow. Colorado got new snow last week and some ski resorts are still open. Guess you'll start planning the trip to Valencia as soon as you can get through the stinkin homework. Glad to know you're still having a great time. Love ya!
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