Day 16: Welcome to Mozart's City

Friday night I was not able to get much sleep because I had basically slept all day, so it was a long night. Saturday morning I was starving, after hardly eating anything on Friday. At Breakfast it was more difficult than I thought to get something down, my stomach was still hurting me.

We headed off to Salzburg after breakfast. I got a seat by myself on the bus thank goodness. We stopped a few times along the way. We also had a surprise stop that Dr. Brantz and Browder would not tell us. We pulled up to this place where there were tons of people. We thought maybe we had to dress up in lederhosen (the traditional German garb) because they said we would have to “dress up a little”. What we were really going to was a mineral/salt place. We went into the Alps where they mine for salt and had to dress up in jump suits –real gangsta ones. There were slides that we could slide down, so Kristin, Taylor, Liz and I slid down them. Fun stuff. It was pretty interesting, but not at all what we were expecting.

After that we headed to Eagles Nest. We had to park our bus and then take a separate bus run by the Eagles Nest tourist people up to the top. The view on the way was amazing, but up at the top it was really foggy. I was a little disappointed with Eagles Nest. I thought it would be a lot more legit, but it was pretty touristy. Needless to say, I was also feeling pretty bad by the point too and just wanted to get to Salzburg.

The Fireplace in Eagle's Nest

Once we finally arrived in Austria and to our hotel, we settled in and then went to a restaurant for a cultural meal. I just got a baked potato hoping that would be easy to eat. That night I went to bed early, which was sad since I was turning 21 at midnight. But I wanted to get better and enjoy Sunday.