The Hills are Alive...

BEAUTIFUL SALZBURG! I absolutely LOVED every minute there, and we made sure our minutes were jam-packed! We started with a Sound of Music Tour (the pictures side by side with the stills from the movie will be in the next post), then did a Bavarian Mountains-Eagle's Nest-Salt Mines tour (for a total of 8 hours in one sitting!) the next day. But since we arrived in Salzburg around 9am, and our SoM tour wasn't until 2, we started by frolicking around town :)

 From birth to the twenties: I have always loved posing with animal statues. This is me with a lion statue in the gorgeous mirabell gardens!

 See Mom? We saw mozart stuff too! We walked in, found out it cost money, and walked out to take this picture. This was his home I think. Also, see that yellow folder in my arms? All of our travel details for the entirety of fall break. It is the (usually) invisible member of all these photos...

 Really pretty probably famous building! yay!

 More Mirabell garden photos, that's me and my roommate Allison :)

 Next to a fountain (in the gardens again) that the Von Trapp kids walk on during the montage of Do a Deer

 Allison and I by Lake Wolfgang

 This is a famous desert in Salzburg called "Hot Love" - vanilla ice cream with hot raspberry sauce on top. Absolutely delicious!

 A Christmas Store! In October?? We were to find out that Austrians and Germans have a deep seated love of the Christmas Holiday that out-rivals America (people who wait until AFTER Halloween to start advertising Christmas? Blasphemy!)

 Can you spy, with your little eye, two of my suitemates behind the most heartwarming display of Halloween-Christmas decorations I've ever seen?

 Because I love tea :)

 Me with the entire cast of Sound of Music!

 The Bavarian Mountains!

 Allison and I doing our Alpha Phi hand symbol up at the Eagle's Nest. The Eagle's Nest was a house built for Hitler for his 50th birthday, which he didn't like because he was afraid of heights, and as you can see we're quite high up. He didn't like driving in reverse, either. Quirky evil dictator, that Hitler.

 

I guess you could call this my "ta-da" pose

 Allison, Me, and Susan finding yet another breathtaking view of the Bavarian Mountains!

Trying to squeeze in as many pictures as possible before the fog rolled in...

 Then the fog got pretty thick. And the makeshift stairs were super icy so it got pretty dicey up there...

... So i just sledded down the hill on my butt! Well, I fell first, but I felt so much safer on the ground than on my feet, I just slid all the way back to the house! Allison, a Californian, gripped to the railing for dear life.

 The Salt Mines tour! So my friends in choir in senior year had actually gotten to go to Salzburg for spring break, and they'd told me about this tour so I was really excited! Turns out, it's pretty boring unless you have an invested interest in how they mine salt. But this was a cool area, it took us forever to realize the water was mirroring the ceiling, because we thought it was so see through that we were looking at the bottom!

After the Salt mines we got tea! I've been mainly having Cappuccini here (which I am now thoroughly addicted to) so it was really nice to go to a place with tea! This picture was taken to show a satisfied tea-snob, who'd been slightly disappointed that when the tour guide said the cafe had great "tea", he didn't mean the meal.


And that was our lovely trip to Salzburg! Next we hit Vienna and Prague!