These are some 'fun time' pictures. This is one of the Road Shows. It's hard to get jokes when you don't speak the language very well ;)










This is our 'Posse' at the Great Dance! Yes, yet again, my outfit should look familiar to some, but when you're a student you have to make things last and so far it has served me well...











So I call this 'Two Men and a WO-man'. I told our friend to the left that he looked like a woman in the first pictures, so he tried to out-do that in this attempt. OH well...he's English, need I say more?











Our friend Davor from Slovenia let me use his J-lo shades for a lot of the evening....hmm....I don't know...I think it might work (amazing how gi-normous glasses look fine on my big head ;)






Every year at this conference they release balloons with little messages, etc. I thought about how environmentally unfriendly it all was, but then of course my negativity would think that way ;)

Enjoy the pretty colors, Aaron!!

Okily-dokily, here we have a view of the city. Wunderbar if I do say so myself! It was nice - when you cross that bridge they have opera or other classical music playing on speakers....











Here is my loverly Judengasse (Jewish 'Street/Way')...




















So the yellow building says Mozarts Geburtshaus (Mozart's Birthhouse). Cool beans!
















And here we have Mozarts Wohnhaus (Mozart's Livinghouse)...












I was really grateful to have found this (just wandering around)...

This is where Joseph Mohr who wrote 'Silent Night' was born!

So here is the collection of 'Sound of Music' sites I got to see.

The first one is the outside of the Reitenschule (Ridingschool) or Grosse Festspiele. Inside is where the Von Trapp's sing their last 'goodbye' to their fellow Austrians...










You had to pay to take a tour, but I was too cheap - I wish I would have gone in. This is a picture of a picture of what it looks like inside...










There were several of these bridges that cover the Salzach river. I recognized the look in one of the 'Sound of Music' scenes when the kids and Maria are out on the town....probably not THE ONE, but could be...









This is St. Peter's Church graveyard - this is where the Von Trapp's hide behind the graves and Rolf and the Captain have their 'stare down' - although the scene doesn't look like this in the movie, so I am thinking the 'hiding' was done here and maybe the 'whole scene' of the graveyard was done in Movietrickingwood...








This is the fountain with the horses at the beginning of the movie when Maria gets kicked out of the convent to face the world and starts singing 'I have confidence in me...'














This is Mirabell Garden where the Von Trapp's run around like crazies. These, I think, are 'the Steps' with the fountain in the background where they end their 'Do Re Me' fest...

These people were getting married that day...









This is 'the Promenade' of Mirabell Garden - I do believe this is where they all run through in the movie...

Here are some views from the Festung of the city and of the fortress itself. Here is part of the inner courtyard...















There is the Salzach river in the foreground with the Dom (Cathedral) right and center. Salzburg historically is Catholic - they kicked all the Protestants out in the 1700's... (no wonder a lot of people seem to hate religion...)









More views....













Closer view of Dom...









Here is the main altar inside the Dom...

This was part of our little posse - old Heidelberg friends with new volleyball friends added in.

Does the building in the background look familiar? Being in Salzburg made me aware of 'movie tricks' as the German in pilot in 'Three Amigos' talks about....

This is the lake and back of the house of the Von Trapp's home, but only the back. The front of the house you see in the movie is a whole other building! Movie tricks! 'I was crushed...' not really though...





Here is a picture of the Festung (another word for fortress I guess)...











Here is the view from the Festung - 'Mountain Momma, take me home...' I love mountains...let me repeat, me loves them thar mountains!!

'For purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain!'...Bavaria! Bavaria! How I do love you! It's so funny...northern Germans who consider themselves 'truly German' always speak of Bavaria like it's another country....they say 'Oh Bavaria?! They only 'became' Germans 100 years ago!' It's funny what you learn living in a place...








How do you spell beautiful? B-A-V-A-R-I-A












This was the BlasOrchester from the local town just on the Austrian side of the border where we stayed. They welcomed us to the area by playing for us and then two local mayors spoke. Very nice indeed...









Then the Church Educational System 'kidnapped' us in order to make a movie. We all had to run into a local Salzburg chapel without looking into the camera. Twas hard, so it was, but the old NPHS drama training came through!







Salzburg is the 'burg' (fortress) of the Salzach river. Beeeautiful if I say so myself!