After our rest, we walked down the street and found a small Christmas market. We walked through and noticed a nearby park. As we got closer, we realized it was a park where a scene from the Sound of Music was filmed!
Here's a picture of me and Arya jumping on the steps where the kids are during Do-Re-Mi!
We noticed over a fence in the park a playground and decided to go find it. We walked around and found this awesome park! The main structure was a large pyramid made of wood and metal with a loooooong tube slide coming out of the middle, but to get up it, you have climb up many large layers inside the pyramid. Arya counted 8 layers.
The slide is very fast and very fun! My favorite part were these huge hammock rope swings that come off large pyramid brass posts. We decided to swing on those for a long time.
Mom and Dad told us it was time to head out, so on we went.
We walked across a large bridge and found ourselves in the old town. While we were there, we discovered a few more Christmas markets and enjoyed looking around.
When we got back to the hotel, we sat down for a nice traditional Austrian dinner. Arya and I decided to wear our traditional dresses! Aren't we cute?!
The next day, we took a trip up to Schloss Hohensalzburg. And yes I mean literally, up. The castle is built on a mountain in the middle of the city so we took one of the steepest railroads ever to get there, as seen in this picture.
When we got up there, we sat and had a nice lunch enjoying the view of Salzburg from the top.
After that, we walked around the castle and took in the sites including: an interesting armor display (not just statues of old men in armor, armor on strings in fighting positions, it looked like a life-sized marionette battle), an actual marionette display room, along with a castle ground Christmas market (mostly ornaments and food).
After another steep ride, this time going down, we found ourselves in a beautiful graveyard outside a church. Here is a picture of one of my favorite gravestones.
The rest of the day we just did some market and shop walking.
Our last day in Salzburg, Mom and Dad surprised us with a tour of the salt-mines of Salzburg (just so you know, by the way, that's where the name Salzburg comes from salt mountain). First we had to get dressed up in these "cute" mining outfits.
To get into the mines, we had to take a train-bench...yes that's, a train-bench. Meaning a moving bench. Literally. Like on a train, but a bench. Trust me.
Inside the mine, we got to go down a few salt mine slides (so much fun!),
a short ride on a boat on a salt river, and got to watch very very boring videos in German. We had to read the super titles at the top of the screen. I don't think even if they were in English, they'd be much more interesting. On our way out, we had a bite to eat and there was the nicest dog who kept doing tricks without us asking it to. I think it just wanted our food.
It was a really fun trip and we had a great time, just like some of our grandparents and great-grandparents had had at the salt mines!
The next morning we got a train and headed for our last stop: Vienna, Austria!
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