Today was the exact opposite of yesterday's sunny 75 degree weather. After breakfast we drove about 35 minutes from Salzburg, Austria into Germany to see Hilter's and his minions summer hideout in the Alps. We both threw on a jacket but I thought "oh it's just a little rain" and wore flip flops. Seriously wrong move! By the time we drove up the 'mountain' to the restaurant area the temperature was about 50 or < degrees and I am in flip flops and Bekah in shorts! Holy Smokes it was cold. I am going to guess we were about 1500 ft above sea level. If I figure out I am wrong I will edit this post. Anyway, after getting some picutres outside we opted for an early lunch in the restaurant at the Eagle's Nest. Oh - one other item is definitely different - the amount of dogs, all sizes and shapes in stores, (including grocery stores), at tourist attractions, and the biggest surprise was at the 'restaurants! But I must say they are incredibly well behaved and many were not on a leash. Just to clarify we took a tour bus up to the hideout from the parking lot (or you can opt to take a 2 hour hike "up the road" to the Eagle's Nest. *not an option in my book* I must say if you could go any further up the mountain you would be at heaven's gate!
When you are looking down on tree tops that are probably a minimum of 100 to 150 feet tall you know you are up there. The Alps are absolutely magnificent! Bekah will post pictures as soon as she is able. She has already downloaded about 300 pictures from just the trip not including todays. The pictures from today unfortunately are not terribly crisp b/c of all the fog and cloud cover BUT the majesty of the Alps is beyond belief. God's handiwork is pretty cool! I very glad we took the tour bus up there - (no one can drive up there as it is private property) and glad someone else drove that - no way I would ever drive that. Actually maybe my son Nathanael would! Took some pictures, drove back and stopped at a Harley shop in Austria for a shirt for someone special (she knows who she is!)
Since we had a pile of dirty clothes we went to the local mall and found a "Washalon" (a laundromat) and hit McDonalds where they messed up the order and drove back to the hotel.
Tomorrow we leave for Venice, our halfway point to Florence. Lord willing summer weather!
It is pouring down rain here as I post and all over Germany. Once Bekah gets the pictures up here you will hopefully understand the awe we had seeing these mountains. Not a terribly exciting day - oh wait, Bekah just reminded me of the snooty sales person in the gift shop while waiting for the tour bus. We were just looking around and touched some of the fabric of a dirndl dress (austrian/german) dresses and she said the store was for people buying not waiting for the bus, and not to touch the fabric then it would get dirty and not able to sell and to top it off we were disturbing her lunch but that was okay if we bought something. No way - not from her, besides I already purchased what I wanted the day before when we missed the last tour bus by 15 minutes (and would have had a sunny day to get some fabulous pictures.) Later......
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