Salzburg & Vienna

Salzburg was a blast! I really mean it. Cameron and I spent our first day there on the Original Sound of Music Tour! I literally cried when we got on the bus. Cameron asked me why I crying and all I could say was... "This is my childhood." I know it's stupid and a little over-dramatic but it really was. My parents would put The Sound of Music in the VCR(that's what we had before DVD's for all those babies out there)and I my sister and I would watch it over and over and over again. My mother called it the best babysitter she could ask for, well... that and Grease. She could have left the house and we wouldn't have noticed until we got hungry.

It was surreal and wonderful.

I am 16 going on 17~


Mirabell Gardens






Lake Scene...


I've got confidence in sun shine!


The Church Maria was married in~




The Lake District



The second day we woke up to rain and 'got lost' in Salzburg. I don't mean literally lost but I'm sure we walked by a few places at least 3 times. We didn't really plan what we wanted to see we just went with the flow. Nice but, tiring on the legs.



The top of the Fortress of Hohensalzburg












Mozart's Bridge








Maria's Abbey


Day 3 we stopped a few places that had been closed the day before. I wasn't allowed to take pictures at Mozart's house, The Salzburg Museum of Art and the Residence. But, I was able too at Hellbrunn Palace and enjoyed some time laying out in the sun and the Trick Fountain Tour was hilarious. We some how got put in with a much older group from France and it's a long story but, it was fun.









Trick Fountains




I thought this was so cute. We couldn't find a lock of our own to add to it~ :(


Day 4 we woke up, packed our bags and headed for Vienna. Our GPS kept taking us through all these small towns and after about an hour of this I stopped the car and put us on the autobahn. Where our drive was cut in half. We checked into our hotel and left to find our tour in Vienna. Where we literally got lost and missed it. Tired, hungry and annoyed we went back to the hotel and arranged for tour to pick us up the next morning for it.

On Day 5 our driver picked us up and brought us to a bus that took us to our next bus that took us on our tour. Stupid right? We would have never found it even if we had known the right place to go. At this point, both Cameron and I were ready to go home. We saw all the sights and sounds of Vienna but I didn't really take any pictures b/c my batteries were dying and it's impossible to find batteries. The highlight was Schobrunn Palace. It was the summer residence of the Austrian Royal Family. Quiet magnificent. After spending the afternoon there we grabbed some lunch downtown and decided to head home early.







Schonbrunn Palace











Next stop... Switzerland!