Salzburg

This last weekend we spent in Salzburg, Austria. It was a marvelous spring weekend. The hills were indeed alive! Salzburg is a beautiful city tucked around the Salzach River valley in the Alps. This is where Mozart was born and raised and composed many a tune. This is also where the Von Trapp family from the "Sound of Music" lived and the movie was filmed. There are many lovely castles, palaces, gardens, and a nice zoo. We spent lots of time outdoors. We stayed with a very kind Christian couple who "grandparented" our kiddos with hugs and toys and grandmotherly advice. We attended church with them at their church on Sunday (it was our first time to attend a worship service and Nat attended Sunday school in German). The boys were so good and Tom and I enjoyed time to walk and talk and take in our surroundings. We rode the train up and down the mountain side, saw and toured the Hohensalzburg fortress, the Mirabell Palace Gardens, the Hellbrunn palace gardens, the water fountain park, and checked out the local zoo. We also peaked inside Mozart's residence, but it was closed for tours when we were there.

Enjoy our photo slide show of Salzburg! If it does not play automatically when you open up our blogsite you may need to click on the "microphone" icon to make the slide show and music begin.