Day 6

Today was yet another change of pace. We had the day completely off from academics, so a bunch of us decided to hop a train to Austria. That's the kind of thing you can do with amazing infrastructure, which America should certainly take note of. The best part? It was €10 round-trip.

After around an hour and a half ride, we arrived in Salzburg, the home of Mozart and the Von Trapp family from the Sound of Music. 

We started off our time in Salzburg with a visit to good old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's houses. The museum was really cool, with some of his original composition notebooks and instruments. 

Mozart also didn't have a bad view out his back window:

After that, we moved on to the garden where the Sound of Music "Doe, A Deer" scene was filmed. Of course I sang the whole time, I couldn't resist. 

On that side of the river, we also ran into a little piece of home that I was incredibly amused by. 

Finally, we wandered back over the river and walked around some of the older parts of the ancient city.

We finished our day in Austria with a bit of a climb. There's just something about old kings and wanting their castles on the actual tops of mountains. It was worth every step, though.

We then walked back along the Salzach River to catch our train, and were back in Munich by 9:00. Today was yet another beautiful day.