Sunday, April 8, 2007

Salzburg and Easter

Saturday we took the train to Salzburg, Austria. Salzburg is a beautiful town but it was crawling with tourists for the holiday weekend. There are some great gardens there and a large castle up on a hill at the edge of town. Darren took us around to some great places and was our tour guide, which gave me a bit of a break. He spent seven months there on his mission. It was another great day with lots of sunshine, I think we all got a little color in our faces.

The way back was a bit of an adventure since there was construction going on on the train tracks. It was a good thing we had Darren with us because the train we were on was supposed to go directly to Landshut, but it stopped well short and everyone got off. It turns out they announced (in German of course) that in order to get to Landshut, we had to take a bus to another train station, then another train to Landshut. It was a bit more connections then we thought but since Darren knows the language we made it back without a problem. Darren also learned some great games to pass the time on long train rides. One of them was called the vegetable and fruit game. At the start, everyone picks a vegetable or a fruit. Then, everyone has to cover their teeth with their lips and someone begins the game by saying their fruit/veggie and then someone else's like: "cucumber to apple" all without bearing their teeth. The person who picked apple then says "apple to ..." whatever other types were chosen. If someone bears their teeth, they are out of the game. It turns out that saying fruits and veggies with your lips covering your teeth is quite hilarious looking and sounding. We ended up laughing hysterically on the ride back, good thing we had the train car to ourselves.

We spent Easter in Landshut and went to church with the Klemm's. Afterwards, we all came back for an Easter egg hunt and a huge lunch. The Easter egg hunt was fun but my egg hunting skills were a bit lacking since I haven't done it for awhile. Oh yeah, and it turns out that Horst had some lederhosen, so of course we had to try it out. I'll let the pictures do the talking since it's late and we have to get up early to go to Heidelberg tomorrow. Happy Easter everyone!!

Salzburg


Easter and Lederhosen fun