the hills were alive today

our day in Salzburg, Austria

Sally Jane at the end of the day in the gardens featured in the Sound of Music

There is no way I can in 5 minutes, sum up one of the greatest days we have had so far. We didn't make it to Salzburg until mid afternoon, because we had to do a little payback time. Which means we do something the kids want to do so that they will get in the car and drive for 2 hours to go to Salzburg.

the pool here at the resort is great. It is only 2 feet deep for the entire pool. The pool is inside but the hot tub is outside. The hot tub is bigger than our entire basement. It is outside and surrounded by the Alps and is gorgeous. So we ate breakfast by the pool, made our kid deposits and then headed out of town.

There is a military training next to the resort (the resort is a military resort and is employed by American college age kids, who are so helpful and nice) so they have a commissary, PX and bank. It has made this trip so smooth being able to pay so little for food, get money without any ATM fees, and buy all the things we forgot to pack. they have over 40 variety's of my favorite Ritter candy bar for $.67.I wonder how to explain to Jeff I plan on coming home with 20 of them..... (everything at the commissary is in American dollars, which makes it double cheap.)

annie kate at the Hohen Salzburg Fortress, over looking the entire city
so we made it to Salzburg mid afternoon and the weather was just beautiful. What is so funny about our non pretrip planning is that when we went to Italy last minute we were there for the cities last day of their summer festival. So we got to enjoy the Italian street market with antiques and food. Today in Salzburg started their week long festival. Lucky us! We found out that the concert we saw overhead the city had tickets sold out 5 years in advance.

We took a carriage ride through the city. It seemed the only way we would be able to see the city as our kids were tired and cranky. I have not seen any other kids cry and have breakdowns, I wonder if that is an American kid thing. Everyone else seems so well behaved.

This city has so much to offer in such a small little space.

We each got a silhouette cut of our profile from a vendor off the street, for only 4 euros. Jeff's looks amazing and exactly like him. I can't wait to take a picture of it and share it.




Jeff may have planned that the shops were closing right after we got there, so much to see so little time. This wooden carving is just like the one I wanted to buy in Oberamergau for 138 euros, here it was only 48. I still didn't buy it but enjoyed seeing it again and liked having a photo.

this little shop was a treat to walk through it was full of thousands of hand painted eggs. ideas were running through my head. The Halloween tree of eggs was so awesome.

So were are literally running out the door to Munich for the day and hoping the short hour drive will recharge us. We are getting really tired, but just can't seem to sit still for even a day. We decided to check out early tomorrow and go to Switzerland for three days and are still toying around the idea of France... are we crazy?

photos of Salzburg