Sunday morning went a little something like this...
We were sleeping at a hotel in Salzburg, Austria, where we met Merry, Jack and Truman the day before. At 5 a.m. (yes, 5 a.m.) Andrew called a taxi so that he could catch a plane to Canada for work. Sometime around 5:15 (still a.m.) I hear a loud banging that wakes me up. I think it is one of the boys banging on the radiator, and I keep telling them to knock it off. I finally wake up enough to realize that the noise is coming from the window. I look out and see Andrew poking our 2nd floor window with a long pole he found outside. It turns out that when he went outside to get something from the car, the hotel door locked behind him and his luggage was locked inside the lobby. I was nice enough to go down in my jammies and open the door for him.
Later that morning (by later, I mean at 8 am) I had the kids bathed and dressed for church. I also had us all packed up and checked out of the hotel. At that point I was feeling pretty proud of myself. I found the church without any problem, but when we arrived we found an empty parking lot and a little note saying that it was stake conference.
To quote Andrew, "we perfected the art of dysfunction" this past weekend.
To back it up though, Andrew took off work on Friday so that we could spend the weekend in Salzburg with the Rowes (with him cutting out on Sunday for work). The drive from our house took 6 hours and to break up the trip we stopped in Liechtenstein and Innsbruck. Andrew had been wanting to drive through Leichtenstien (is this country even on the maps?), and I'm pretty sure it was only because he wanted to keep saying the name "Leichntenstien". I didn't complain, because honestly, the drive to Salzburg through the Austrian Alps was the most beautiful thing I've
ever seen in my life. I tried to take pictures while we were driving, but they didn't even begin the capture the beauty surrounding us- it was overwhelming.
Our weekend is now over and our friends are back on plane to Maryland...booo! I also don't have any pictures with the Rowes in Salzsburg because by the time we met up with them I was a little photoed-out. I promise they were there though...
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
(now checked off of Andrew's bucket list)
Innsbruck, Austria
Salzburg, Austria
I loved Salzburg! I loved the architecture, the history, and the feeling of this city (it was very mellow- although this may have been because not many tourist were there).
I've only seen The Sound of Music once or twice, so that was lost on me, but we had fun visiting museums, the city castle, cathedrals, Mozart's birthplace, and the home he grew up in.
This is inside Mozart's childhood home. I wasn't supposed to take pictures, but I snapped this one of Sam when the guard wasn't looking. I'm a rebel, what can I say.
The Salzburg Cathedral (below) was where Mozart was baptized and served as the organist for 3 years. When we visited someone was playing one of the four organs- it was pretty cool.
I love how this baby zonks out when she needs to sleep-
According to Luke, super heroes are mean and scary
