The! Hills! Are! Alive!

Hi my name is Whitney and I think I just might have experienced the highlight of my life.  

It's almost time to say auf wiedersehen to Vienna (AHHHH) so we decided to have one final hurrah by taking a day trip to Salzburg.  Home of the SOUND! OF! MUSIC! TOOOOOOOOOOUR!!!!!!

We took the train to Salzburg and (deciding this was no time to try to not look like tourists) then hopped on a giant bus with Fraulein Maria's singing face on it:

And headed off for the most magical morning of my life.  We saw the Von Trapp villa (wasn't it nice of those geese to float by so picturesquely when we asked them to?):

And the little lane where the Von Trapp children hung singing from the trees:

Frolicked (singing, of course) through the greenest meadows:

And wound up mountain roads through beautiful farmlands and fields with charming spotted cows until we reached the LAKE district:

It. was. amazing.  The tour ended down by the shore of the Mondsee, which was probably just about one of the most peaceful places in the whole wide world.

Then it decided to rain the rest of the day, so for a while we stood under an awning while we ate giant pretzels.  Then we befriended some Europe-trotting retirees from the United States.  (Salzburg is, in fact, a greeeeat place to meet some geriatrics.  They're everywhere.)  And then... then we had to take our very last train ride back to Wien, because we're leaving tomorrow!  

More pictures here :)