Sprechen Sie Englisch
that means do you speak english in german...which became my most quotable phrase over the weekend....This weekend was Salzburg, Austria- the birth place of mozart (whose birth-year it is), the Von Trapp Family, and also Red Bull.
Friday we started with leaving from school at 1:02....and after changing trains twice....we finally arrived at our hostel at 1:40..talk about a long day..we looked at it as if we had just driven to New York City so we could spend the day there...which kind of put a damper on friday night...
The 1st train was smoky and it made everyone very very grumpy......
The 2nd train we need to reserve a seat...but luckily we just kind of sat down and only one of the four had to move....
The 3rd train there was a creepy drunk man who all he knew in english was why hello there...but we pretended to get off the train and really just moved down 3 cars......
Saturday- We head up to the Fort which over looked all of Salzburg. It was a little overcast and a little snowy but it made for some great sights....After a tour of the inside and a little lunch we headed back for our Sound of Music Tour...
The whole tour was about 5 hours....We started out with the fountain (do-re-mi) and continued to follow the whole movie throughout Salzburg and the Alps... (pictures are amazing..on webshots already) we had crisp apple steudle and we wore our warm wooly mittens....We saw the real von trapp family home which was really cool.....Our tour guide was amazing....we had sing-a-longs in the car and every time we would get to a place he would tell us..."go over there and i make a picture"
Then Saturday night we attended a Mozart concert, since he was born there and everything.....it was different than any other musical performance i have ever been too......there were only four people playing in a room of about 100 people......but the music was a nice way to round out our experience.....
Sunday- we took 12 more hours of trains home.....and then i passed out from lack of energy!!!
But it was an amazing trip and i now know more about the sound of music then any one every should.....
2 Comments:
sounds pretty exciting...i love how every weekend you go out of country like its hard to think of that leaving the country for the weekend nuts...but yeah i was sick this week sinus infection yuk! that was about it me and elise survived a week without paretns and.....im alive
we did not have to spend 12 hours on a train but spent 12 hours in different airports or cars. trip was fun, mr. & mrs. b had a very relaxing trip and we laughed at our selves because going to a eat anywhere but next door at the palaba was to much work, we did play tennis with eric and glen but when we started to sweat we stopped. sat in the sun, read, and took a very long cold and windy jeep ride to playadecarmen and back. rode ferry to cozamel and back tried to snorkel but raining and cold, decided jeeps look more fun than they are. both in aruba and cancun either too hot or too cold or maybe i'm just too old.
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