Salzburg

We got into Slazburg last night and had pizza and a doner. Doner is kind of like a gyro, but in Karinś opinion, so much better! We then went to relax at our hostel. We got our bed made and were hanging out having a good time until this guy came in and joined our conversation. We didn't mind at first then we realized he had no idea what he was talking about and wouldn't stop talking. Luckily, another girl from our room came up and invited us all down to the hostel bar for trivia night, and we were saved! The bar was fun we met a group from England and asked us to be on their trivia team! We said sure but explained that we are not that good, seeing as the trivia was that they playing music and we had to identify the movie, tv show, or musical it came from. It was a lot of fun and our team complimented each other rather well. What we did not know, they knew. We ended up winning second place! That meant free beer and snacks!

This morning we did the Fraulein Maria Bike Tour! It is a bike tour that takes us to most of the Sound of Music sites in Salzburg. We had a large group, and most of the time we talked to a couple from Chicago. Turns out, he used to work for Arthur Andersen (an old accounting firm) so him and Kendra had lots to talk about. We saw lots of sceens from the movie. Some of them are documented on our pictures! The others will be posted as soon as possible. (One of our memory cards does not like to upload on some computers for some reason...)

Then we went to the old town where we saw Mozart's birthplace and all sorts of amazing buildings. The town is really interesting in that there really are not many sidewalks. The buildings create different streets through the town and people just walk to the side of the cars.

We spent the morning of our second day going through the fortress of Salzburg (Hohensalzburg). It is one of the best preserved fortresses in Europe. Also, it was apparently never taken by force. The fortress is surrounded by cliffs and has its own water supply, so itś pretty indestructable. The view from there was absolutely beautiful. The tour took us quite a bit less time than we had planned since the public is not allowed in a majority of the inner buildings. And since it was a Sunday and pretty much all of the city was closed, we grabbed our lunch, found a nice grassy spot by Mirabell Gardens and played cards for the afternoon. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and we had a fun time relaxing by the fountain where the von Trapp children and Maria run around singing :)

Our train back to Munich left at 5:41 this morning..... And it was and eventful morning. First, Kendra slept through her alarm :( Luckily Karin woke up to hers! We got downstairs to the 24 hour check out (supposedly) with just enough time to get our deposit back. We waited rang the bell, rang it again!!! 10 min later Kendra found a guy outside and it was the office guy. Imagine that. He checked us out and we RAN out the door. Running down the street, we passed a guy looking strange. As Kendra ran by, a stream started flowing under his legs!!! OH my GOSH he was peeing on the street! We literally both had to jump over the stream and continue running. We made it just in time:)!