This afternoon, Kristin Kurtz and I got back from a whirlwind trip to Salzburg, Austria!! Salzburg is SO beautiful! The only downside of our trip was that two out of three of the major things we wanted to see were closed. We were not able to go up Mt. Untersburg by cablecar or see the Sound of Music Marionette show. The cable car was under maintenance from October 24 to December 6. Yeah, it opened this morning, but we had to catch our train. The Marionette show was on tour in Paris.
BUT we did get to take the Sound of Music tour! So much fun!! We enjoyed seeing the Austrian countryside, for sure. So the moral of that story is that Salzburg did not like us even if we liked it. The wax museum was even under repair. Bummer.
We spent a lot of time at the Christmas market. We also saw Mozart's birthhouse, Holhensalzburg fortress, the Nunnburg convent, Mirabell gardens, and other random things.
In other news, we saw some festivities relating to St. Nicholas day. St. Nicholas was walking around with some little (and not so little) devils/monsters. Turns out that you should avoid eye contact with these guys. Seriously, part of this celebration is whipping the bad children. I was whipped on the legs four times from three different monsters. AND I'm the GOOD one!!
Yeah, that was pretty hilarious...
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