If I'm going to pick an age to be forever it certainly isn't going to be 18. After I left the mall the real "fun" began. I walked all though the old town. I saw many lovely buildings and statues of Mozart everywhere. About 6:30 I decided to head on back to the hotel. You know those days when you amaze yourself with your directionality.
Yesterday wasn't one of them. I couldn't have found my way out of a paper bag. I walked until it was more natural to keep walking than to stop. All the buildings started to look the same. I kept telling myself that when I got to the end of the street if I couldn't see my hotel I was going to have to consult my map. In finally busted it out at 10. That's three and a half hours lost. Turns out that I was so close, yet so far.
Today was a much different day though. Today my good karma is back. I am having amazing luck. I'm going to attribute it to my American attire. I started the day by going to Mozart's home.
And then I realized I don't really care. Classical music isn't really my thing. What is my thing, you ask? Chocolate covered pretzels. I can't really put into words how excited I was!
After I inhaled my pretzel, I headed up to the castle.
This was my favorite of all the castles I've seen. By the time that I got up there I was sweating so bad that my eyelids were getting stuck open. It was super attractive.
But I loved the castle none the less. I loved that the castle was a impenetrable fortress.
I loved that it was really neat and it offered a fantastic view of Salzburg.
It even had a marionette theater inside with scenes of torture and a view of the dungeons.
That part was creepy.
After I finished the castle, I headed to a village called Grodig. Grodig is at the base of the mountain Untersberg. They offer a cable car to the top which is right around 1900 meters. It is so high that you cant see the top.
The ride up was nice until we crossed over a ridge and were surrounded by clouds. Everything quickly went white. If I was in a Lifetime movie it would have been my end. I would have been about to meet my maker.
But in real life, a cloud moved in and just sat on the top of the mountain. I went ahead and hiked through the clouds to the cross at the top.
It was a surreal experience. I could hear people around me but couldn't see anyone more than 100 feet away. I found a bench and sat down to stare into nothingness.
On the way back down is when I started to panic. I caught the last cable car down for the night. They stuffed us in there like sardines.
I did a quick assessment of everyone's weight verses the weight limit and hoped for the best. I should mention that I am awful at math. When I got to 7,000 pounds i just knew we were doomed.
I did take a picture of all the people in the cable car followed by me doing a scared face just incase the cable snapped. I thought that my phone would be more likely to make it through the fall than i would be and I wanted someone to know that it was overpacked. Luckily we all made it down and I didn't have to come back to haunt the man who packed us all in.
Tomorrow morning Im taking a Sound of Music bike tour. I haven't been on a bike since I took a nasty spill trying to be cool on my bike when I was nine. Not that I'm counting but that was 21 years ago. I can't wait to see how that works out.
Location:Salzburg,Austria
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