Salzburg - The End of Our Adventure!

We got in to Salzburg on the tail of our second rain of the trip (the first being a little storm outside of Prague - so fortunate!)  Our hotel was very nice, but the boys were a little cramped in thier room.  The area was also a little sketchy, being outside of a train station.  But the bathroom - oh that bathroom!  It was heavenly!  That night we just played some cards in the hotel and got Burger King for dinner (Austrian Burger King serves CURLY FRIES!)

Janos told us the next morning that many things in Salzburg might be closed, because that weekend was a holiday in Austria.  We were so lucky!  Most of the touristy things were open, but the crowds were small because everyone was in church!

We took a tram up the mountain (fun!) and got in to the beautiful Hohensalzburg Castle grounds.  What an amazing view!

 I think this was the most surreal part of the trip.  We don't have ANY mountains back home, and even driving through the Rockies was nothing like that!  We took a tour of the castle, which was informative but a bit dry.  Here's a torture wheel in a tower dungeon, though...

Husband mans the cannon...

For some reason a Marionette Museum...

Marionettes were creepy/cool.

 We got back down to the town square just in time to beat the other tourist crowds.

Pretzel time!

Giant Chess Set (Made me think of the Kids from Eureka!)

Creepiest.  Statue.  Ever.  Hiding around a corner giving people heart attacks.

Gorgeous church with an Archbishop or other Mucky-Muck speaking.

Fountain!

Lots of people wearing things like this...

Mozart was born here!

More chillin with Mozart!

 People in this area freakin LOVE Mozart.  I mean, you saw how Mozart-heavy Vienna was?  Well, he actually LIVED in Salzburg, so he is EVERYWHERE here.

Overall our time in Salzburg was pretty much perfect.  We grabbed lunch at a little pastry shop, and then it was another long bus ride back to Munich for our farewell dinner.  Many of these sights were the same ones we had already seen (and I didn't take any in Munich proper - whoops!), but we were all pretty tired and ready to go home the next morning.  This was really the trip of a lifetime!