| In Zurich,
Switzerland, we stayed at the
Marriott |
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When we went
walking around, we noticed the streets were empty.
It was National Day in
Switzerland. |
| We found the
people, they were celebrating at the
Grossmünster Cathedral |
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After the service,
there were several people that were carrying flags |
| The city square
also had people in costume.
These guys had the bells. I wondered how heavy the bells were. |
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| After Zurich, we
drove to Munich Germany. And
in Munich, it was Summer Fest time. |
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We went to the BMW
Headquarters & Museum |
| and the new
customer delivery center. |
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Inside of the
Museum |
| Inside the
Customer Delivery Center - BMW Welt |
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This table was an
interactive computer. Very cool |
| After BMW we went
to
Dachau Concentration Camp |
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After a day of
site seeing, we took the "U" into Munich |
| We met this
gentleman who gave us a nice history lesson. |
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| The next day
we drove to see
Neuschwanstein Castle
and
Hohenschwangau Palace
Both can be seen in the picture on
the right.
This shows their proximity to each
other. |
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One side of
Neuschwanstein Castle |
| The other side of
Neuschwanstein Castle
Taken from St. Mary's Bridge |
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Hohenschwangau
Palace |
| After the castles,
we drove to Hallstatt Austria |
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Lake Hallstatt |
| We stayed at the
Hotel Hirlatz |
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Parking is hard to
come by in this little town |
| Because it is a
small town and Catholics were opposed to cremation, The cemetery was
"reused" Bones were dug up every 10 to 15 years (as space was
needed) The bones were then painted and placed in the Bone Chapel. |
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Hallstatt is known
for their salt mines. We had
to tour the
salt mine. |
| Paul & Elizabeth
sliding in the salt mine we
went 19.5 km/hr down the slide |
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The view taking
the funicular back to town. |
| Then we were off
to Salzberg While at the
Castles, another American told us that we needed to go to
Marienplatz to see a concert, so we
did. |
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After the concert,
we needed to find where "the monks make the beer"
Augustiner mmmmmm |
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View of Salzburg
from the Museum on top of the town. |
| One of the neatest
things we did in Salzburg was the Sound of Music Tour (we used
Bob's and would recommend)
This is what was used as the back of
the Von Trapp house. Originally the Gazebo was here, but the
"stupid Americans" kept playing around in it and they moved it, but the
American's kept following. Many would try to do the dance scene
that Liesl and Rolf did and would hurt themselves, so they just decided
to keep it locked!! |
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There was actually two Gazebos, one
for filming the outside and the other for inside shots. |
| This is the tree
lined lane that Maria sings "I've Got Confidence" on the way to the Von
Trapp house. |
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This is the garden the children
danced it, if you can see little photo, it is taken from the top of the
Do Re Mi stairs looking down at the garden (like on the left) |
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This is the statues that they danced
around. |
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I think this is a picture of the
steps. |
You can see that this is the same fountain from the movie |
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The bridge in the
background is Motzart's Bridge.
In the movie, the children were
dancing across it with Maria. |
| In the movie, the
real Maria Von Trapp wall through the archway with her daughter and
niece while Julie Andrews in moving through the front of the scene. |
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When the children
are playing in the garden, they boys race through this tunne. |
| The exterior of
the church Maria and Capitan Von Trapp
are married in. |
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This is Sandra our
tour guide, she gave us SO much information about the movie and the
location, we really enjoyed her. |
| During the tour we
stopped and did a
luge ride
VERY fun, I wanted to go again
In this picture we are being
pulled up (see the cable behind our heads) |
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This is Paul and
going down. |
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| While we were in
Europe, the girls did a summer camp at the
experimental farm.
This is Taylor's 6 week old calf
named Collette |
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