I had to pop back to Munich for a moment and show you this fabulous picture. This florist was at the Viktualian market, They were everywhere with the most beautiful arrangements for Easter - especially featuring pussy willows, ribbons and birds.
More on Thursday March 20th.
Then we walked down to the Altstadt – old town. 
We walked up the Geidergasse, bought a ticket to the Mozart birthplace museum and had a really nice time exploring that. The Geidergasse street is so fun to explore.
This is a rare picture. I snaped a couple of pictures in the Mozart Birth House Museum before I was told that I couldn't take pictures. Oops! We really enjoyed looking in the traditional European clothing stores. Haley has decided that she wants a traditional drindle dress with the vest and blouse and all. Unfortunately, the store we were shopping in only had 500 euro drindle dresses. When you put the whole outfit together with the boiled wool sweater you were upwards of 1000. euro. We decided we could do a wonderful job of it at home! Maybe even with fabric we already own!
We then walked up the rest of the street, explored a beautiful old church that appeared to be carved right out of the rock. We walked around the back way to the dom Platz and discovered the Faulkulum (train up a steep hill) to the hoehn fortress. Yes, my friend Gretchen has had a really good time telling me that she climbed up there on the walkway with a three year old in a stoller! But we decided to ride up!
When we arrived at the top, we discoved a delightful little restaurant and made a reservation for dinner – a window seat please!! The view was phenomenal. We walked around the deserted fortress marveling at the views all around Salzburg. We went back and had such a good dinner, we may return there again tomorrow night. Frank and I shared two wonderful dishes… A pork, beef and turkey medallion over ratatouille the other a delicious and very reasonable Mushroom stroudel. We decided that anything the Austrians decided to do with Mushrooms would be just fine with us. We then shared a traditional Sazlburg desert, a chocolate pudding (really cake) with ice cream, whipped cream and real chocolate sauce. It was out of this world.
After dinner with a last look at the snowy views from the fortress, at that very moment the clocks all over the city began to play and peel to see who could outdo the other. It was the most phenomenal moment, actually a moment that lasted about 10 minutes. As the last bell finally tolled and faded, Frank said it was a moment he would never forget. On a whim we went into the Dom Platz. A service was in progress, we stayed and enjoyed fabulous music. The acoustics were fantastic.
Then Haley had her dinner at McDonalds. She had been with us the whole time, but wanted the taste of home. 
She bought a darling knit hat with a huge pom pom on top. She is wearing it now as she sleeps. Ordinarily, she wouldn’t have really chosen something like this, but when in Rome! So after the McDonalds stop, we went across the river and walked down by the Hotel Sacher ( of famous Sacher Torte fame). We got home around 9:30 and have been enjoying a German version of Funniest Home Videos. Quite fun to watch, since you don’t really need to understand what they are saying and they love American music! Everywhere we have run into the friendliest people who are happy to speak English. Foreign travel lesson learned: Always have a reserved seat on the train if you are traveling in a small group and you want to sit together! Luckily our travel agent booked our next train with reserved seats. We were close and luckily all had great seat mates. We met Terry, a single middle aged man going from Munich to just outside Salzburg to ski. He lives in Frankfurt. He spoke wonderful English and enjoyed listening to Haley tell him all about home. He pointed out the Alps and was helpful with other tips about getting on and off the train. Our other seat mate was a young Russian student studying at a German University but he was on Easter holidays. Very friendly.
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