The Hills are Alive With THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

Throwback Tuesday to when I was in Salzburg, Austria:

SALZBURG!!! The birthplace of Mozart. Naturally, as a classically trained pianist for 13 years, I'm in HEAVEN. Actual heaven. It's Mozart!!! And it doesn't hurt that it's also the home of The Sound Of Music, aka one of the best movies EVER. So yes, Salzburg is heaven for those of you that are wondering.

Well, I decided I wanted to do everything, and visit everything, so naturally the first part of that list was doing The Sound of Music Tour. For those of you that know me, you know that tour groups are the most dreaded aspect of traveling. Piling onto a bus with 50-odd strangers and being herded from place to place sounds like actual hell to me, HOWEVER, when it's the only way to see all of the scenes of one of my favorite movies, SIGN ME UP!

I will admit, I was subtly surprised.... It was actually fun! Part of our lovely tour group seemed normal, as normal as Sound of Music fans can be... while quite a few were clearly looking for where they last left their brains and several poor souls had zero clue what they signed up for, which became even more apparent when they began blasting the soundtrack for us to sing along to.... Obviously, I was part of the semi-normal, singing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs crowd.

Since I was there by my lonesome, I offered to take pictures for a few of the people in front of the wonderful scenery. One such group was a lovely group of doctors from New York. I took their camera, and being full on Disney-brainwashed, wrapped the camera strap around my wrist (you only have to drop some strangers camera once...), and the girl in their group freaked out and demanded to know why I wrapped the camera strap around my wrist twice. Turns out, she had also been Disney-brainwashed on a Disney College Program in 2010 as a Photopass Photographer! Well, obviously we became instant friends, and after the tour they invited me back to their hotel to grab a drink.

Little did I know they were staying at the 5-star CASTLE on the top of the hill overlooking Salzburg! So yes, we did have a few drinks. At a castle. In Salzburg. And it was FABULOUS.

I can now say, I got tipsy in a castle with doctors and golden statues of jaguars while singing The Sound of Music soundtrack.

Love, Alison