Home Sweet Home!!

Home again, home again! But here are a few fun pics from our trip. Ther are so many it's hard to choose!

This is our street in Baden-Baden! Our hotel room looked down on the little cafe's on the main street through this wonderful little town (where incidentally -my GGGG Grandparents were from!) it hasn't changed much according to the local folks we talked to! We were there the weekend of their yearly music festival! It was so much fun and entirely on accident on our part, so we joined the fun and partied in the street with the locals!

I took this pic for Brandi's collection (hahaha) This is a fountain at the Mirabelle Palace near Salzburg. But did not notice at first the near naked homeless guy picking the coins up off the bottom of the fountain - eeek!

This is a spiral staircase in the Abbey at Melk. The whole place was really amazing (though the tour itself was crappy) They have a book there that is over 1000 years old!

This was taken in Salzburg at one of the many, many fountains. The horse murals behind me are hundreds of years old!

Home at last and it feels good to be here!!

Vacation is great but what a wonderful feeling to walk back into your own home!
Thanks so much to Ryan and Adrienne who took wonderful care of the house and the puppers for us!! I can't tell everything we did and I still don't know what to say about Vienna! The buildings -the history-the fountains and statues - everywhere! It's all so beautiful, and noisy and busy and people everywhere. But it feels somehow safe and not rushed or really crowded. The city just has some kind of feel about it that I can't explain.

For instance, you buy a ticket for the bus or the U or the train - but no one ever takes your ticket or looks at it. The whole 4 days we were there....

This is at the gate from the Palace gardens at Schonbrunn ( the Hofburg family's Summer place!)

Here is a lttle video from Oktoberfest where we had a wonderful time and sang and danced on the table like the Germans do!

More Germany and Austria!

This is Us in front of the Mansion where parts of The Sound of music were filmed. Gorgeous home on a lake in a gorgeous area!

We are having a fabulous time and everything is so incredibly beautiful!!

We love the trains here- so fast and easy-not to mention clean!

We`'ve had some fun with English/German lessons as hardly anyone in Begtesgarten Spoke English at all!

We arrived in vienna today -i cant express how amazing it is..words fail..

The buildings and the archtitecture...!

I have not taken any pics here yet.

Here is a pic of the Fabulous Castle in Salzburg. One of the mightiest fortresses in all of Europe, it was never taken by force since 1100 ad! It was wisely surrendered only to Napoleon!

The is taken from the trail walking up to our wonderful B&B in Bad Rachenhall.

Such a gorgeous place on a little lake!

Love you all and cant wait to show you all of our pictures!

We are staying in Vienna 4 days - in a teensy little place off of an alley in the heart of old Vienna!

Germany!

We are here safe and sound and not even too tired! It was touch and go a few times getting onour flights - standby is a little scary. Made it on the LA -Frankfurt flight by the skin of our teeth and Ric being so charming! Then first class to Frankfurt! WOW- now we know how the rich folks travel! We are staying the next few days in A lovely resort outside of Badreichenhall. near a little daarling lake and a billion trees -just at the begining of the Austrian Alps. Gorgeous!
The computer at this place wont let me upload pics or go on Facebook so you have to wait for pics. We are really glad we learned a tiny bit of german before leaving! Hardly anyone speaks more than a word or two of english and they are as nervous about it as we are German!
Having a really fun time pracxticing tho and everyone has been so nice. Got caught in a thunder and lightning storm this afternoon and were glad of the rain jackets and umbrella we through into the backpack!
Salyburg tomorrow and Eagles nest and whatever we feel like!
Love You all!!

See Yaaaa!!!

We're Gone!!!