Down to the Boot

Hey people! Sorry it's been a while since we've posted anything. Internet has been rare and it's harder then we thought to find time. So I'll do a quick update of Thursday -Saturday.

Thursday- Another wonderful day in Salzburg...besides all the rain, which poured the whole afternoon and night. So today we did some more shopping and went to Mirabell Gardens where some of The Sound of Music was filmed! Does anybody remember when the kids line up on the stairs after singing in the garden? That's where we were!

We also we Augustiner Brau stube which was  Benedictine Monestary that has been serving it's own brew for hundreds of years! Of course my dad loved it. It was really nice and we got to sit outside under a patio and no one was outside so it was nice and quiet. After that we went home and dried out our clothes for our Mozart evening concert! It was absolutley amazing! They played three twenty minute pieces, accompanied by two great opera singers, in between courses. It was awesome!

Friday- We had to get up early this morning and walk down to the museum five minute walk away to get picked up from our taxi by seven. But of course when we walked down it wasn't raining but snowing! We also had to wait for 20 minutes for our taxi, good thing we bought some umbrellas. Our taxi driver drove us to the train station and we went on our train bound for Vienna! We had a little bit of a mix up with trains but we eventually got there just an hour later then scheduled. In Vienna we were able to put our suitcases in a locker so all we had was our purses which was wonderful! In Vienna we walked around quite a bit and we were finally able to take a horse and buggy tour after not doing one in Brugge or Salzburg.

While we were there we visited St. Stephan's Cathedral in which you were able to walk up the 343 step spiral staircase into the south tower! At the top it had a wonderful view of the city! It was really fun except going down because I got really dizzy.

After that we went to the Sacher Hotel and ate their famous Sacher Torte in their cafe. 

.After that we picked up some supper and went on our overnight night train to Venice! Our room was quite small but it was better then sleeping in chairs.

Saturday-After a restless night we arrived in Venice! It was weird being in a country where you didn't know any of their language. In all the other countries they spoke English or German so it was easy to get by since my mom and dad know German but here it was kinda scary at first. But almost everyone we talked to spoke really good English since it is a tourist city. We saw three different churches that day and got to take our first vaporetto! A vaperetto is just like a water bus. The place we were staying was beautiful!It had a kitchen, living room, two bathrooms and two bedrooms! It was so nice to have your own bed that's not three feet away from the ceiling. 

Also today we met up with Jessica! She'll be traveling with us for the rest of our journey, if she can stand us for that long. Of course we had some pizza and gelato which was delicious! The streets there are so confusing. If you look around yourself amost everyone is looking at a map. Though the map doesn't always help. We did run into a few dead ends that lead into a wall or a canal!

That's all for now and Sarah will tell the rest of what happened tomorrow or the next day, so ciao for now!