Happy Mother's Day.
Today we went down to have breakfast before leaving Salzburg. We got our plates, filled them, and started to go back to our seats only to find two ladies sitting there. We know this is a common practice in Europe, and there weren't any other open tables, so we reclaimed our seats. We ended up having a very nice conversation with them, even though their English was limited. One was from Basel and the other was from Northern Germany. We asked how long it took to get there from Northern Germany and the girl said 4 hours. That seemed like a short amount of time, so we asked how fast she drove. Her answer was that the speedometer only went up to 200 and wouldn't let her go any faster. That's 120 miles per hour. It would take us longer.
We left Salzburg and began our journey toward the Erzebirge Region of Germany. We get side-tracked so easily. I saw a sign for Mondsee and just had to go there. They used the church there for the wedding scene in the Sound of Music. The little town is very colorful, and the lake is very nice. Just as we got there, the wind began to blow and howl like a tornado (do they even have tornadoes here?). We jumped out of the car and took several pictures then traveled on.
A little later I saw a sign that said "Melk". I told Lonnie that I remembered reading something about Melk, but I couldn't remember what. We took the exit and found an exquisite cathedral on a hill. It is supposed to be unbelievably beautiful on the inside so we need to file that one away for future reference.
Since we spent so much time on our little side trips, we didn't make it very far, so we stayed in a little town called Krems, Austria. They had a restaurant that we ate at, then calleg it a night.
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