This photo was taken up in the Salzburg Fortress. The fortress is a legitimate medieval castle, like the type a whole village could live in. It was pretty neat-except for the wind and rain that almost carried us away.
I don't like this photo. I don't even know what this building is. But I just wanted to point out the gold ball down at the bottom. Yeah, that's right, the giant snitch thing. That was a gift from the Germans just a couple decades ago. It has this weird man on top of it. It looks very out of place on the streets of Salzburg.
This is a portion of what used to be a mondo-huge music box. The scroll at the bottom made the organ play over the whole fortress. I wish we could have seen it in action.
After Salzburg we went to the tiny ski town of Dorfgastein. I loved that place, even more than Innsbruck. Our first morning we went to the town church to attend the holiday mass-Corpus Christi holiday. It felt like Christmas in there. Everyone was dressed in traditional Austrian garb and it smelled so good! The kids that helped with the service were adorable and the choir was beautiful. Afterwards there was a "procession" through the town-which was just the town band and battalion. It was interesting to see girls in their green cloaks and blue knee high socks playing the piccolo with a pierced nose and lip. I think it's cool that the teenagers participate in all the traditional stuff. I was so glad we were there on the holiday.
That night the locals were still celebrating the holiday by drinking, dancing, and singing all while this guy played the accordion. SO FUN. One of the guys came over to talk to us, and knew that we were the Americans and where we were staying. The town is that small.
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