How wonderful to wake up looking out at the Austrian mountains!  We wandered down to breakfast.  Our first full day in Salzburg demanded a little housekeeping first – we had a MOUND of dirty laundry to work through.  After breakfast we navigated our way down Moosstrasse to the “Green Clean” laundromat.  Very cool but not cheap.  We’d insisted the kids come along to help, and they quickly found a park down the street where they could play with Wilson and make each other dizzyingly sick on the old-school merry-go-throw-up.  In the laundromat, we met the mother of a sweet family from the States who was in the middle of their OWN summer-long tour of Europe.  Though they were CAMPING.  In their 18-foot RV.  Mom, Dad, and all TWELVE of their kids!  Yikes!  Now THAT’s togetherness.

With clean and folded clothes, we returned to Bloberger Hof, stopping by our Billa grocery store on the way for lunch stuff.  We had lunch on the patio and all turned in for early-afternoon naps.

Into old-town Salzburg for a walk before dinner.  We found a parking garage for the car and strolled through the narrow streets before ending up in the central “platz”, where we spotted our first Sound of Music landmark – the horse fountain shown in “I Have Confidence”.  With photos and the requisite reenactment out of the way, we toddled past Mozart’s birthplace looking for a place for dinner.  With a little luck, LouAnn and I found the exact same café we had loved so much 19 years earlier, and we all settled in for a wonderful Austrian dinner of schnitzel, pretzels, and beer.  (well, ONE of us had all three) The kids tried fancy, local soft drinks that were served in WINE GLASSES, so they thought that was VERY grown-up.  LouAnn and I grinned at each other all evening, soaking in the nostalgia of our 19-year return.

On the way back to the garage we did what we do best – strolling, window-shopping, laughing, and occasionally breaking up two or more bickering children.  Salzburg – unlike the other larger cities we’d been in, was QUIET in the evening; shops closed, no street vendors pressing obligatory trinkets into your hands – it was a peaceful change of pace.

Good morning, Salzburg!

Duty calls.

Let’s see…..what is NORMAL CYCLE in German?

Cool!

Waiting for the wash cycle, we found a park nearby.

Not sure what he’s doing here.

I look like I’m having fun.  The pressure of having a BLOG.

He’s FASCINATED by Ambrose.

Dryers almost done!

EVERYONE folds.  Rule #1 of Parenting.

 

3 out of 5 cooperating.  Actually, that’s not bad for this trip.

LouAnn cooked an awesome lunch back at the Hof.

Sound of Music fountain!

Yeah, she’s pretty excited.

Mozart’s birthplace.

The kids found them some drinks they thought were PURTY fancy.

We fell in LOVE with Almdudler, an Austrian soda.

Schnitzel and weissbier at Humboldt’s!

LouAnn dramatically pointing something out.

Salzburg Fortress…