live.laugh.love--the journey: Just a few bumps in the road

Saturday night, in sick.

"It’s a Saturday night and I’m staying in because I have some sort of bug L. We think its something I ate and I thought I would feel better in the morning but it definitely stuck with me all today. Abbie and LJ left to go out on the town tonight and Holly’s in Switzerland for the weekend. I wish I could have gone with them! But I spent all of today on our tours of the Salt mines and Sound of Music nauseas and getting sick on the bus. Gross. So hopefully by just staying behind and watching a movie with two other girls who opted out of the bar scene I will feel better tomorrow.

This has been quite the weekend for our group! One girl sprained her ankle, some people’s things have gone missing, one other guy is sick and I got some sort of food poisoning. One week in and we’re falling apart! Ha! No, just kidding J I’m taking Airborne and drinking lots of fluids, just woke up from a 2 ½ hour nap that I desperately needed and by tomorrow I think things will be better.

On a happier note the tours today were amazing! The buses left at 8:45am and we didn’t get home until 6:30pm. A picture says a thousand words so I’ll share many, but it was quite the day!

Highlights—

*the fashionable jump suits we got to wear in the salt mines

*(our tour guide in general) HAHA he was dressed up as a solider? Or maybe a drill sergeant, anyways he was hilarioussssss

*OH! I de-boned my first trout this weekend…!! Um, yes so proud of myself. It came grilled whole on my plate and instead of panicking I dug in and it was delicious J

*got mom a birthday present!

*saw VERY native Austrians walking around in the small town we stopped at to see the Church where the baron and Maria got married… lederhosen and all!

*we took a picture in front of the very gondola where Liesl and Frank sang “16 going on 17” SO PRETTY

*got Sound of Music stickers for my scrapbook!!

*had my first experience of throwing up ON A TOUR BUS, IN EUROPE, IN A (TOO-SMALL) PLASTIC BAG, IN PUBLIC, TRYING TO DO IT QUIETLY SO I DIDN’T GROSS PEOPLE OUT, wanting to legit sleep on the bus and miss seeing the hill where Julie Andrews frolicked. I won the trooper award (along with Jo who hobbled around on a sprained ankle) Hands down."

Sitting in the Republic right now, (turning into our new favorite place!) and was pleasantly surprised that Sunday mid-mornings have live music! Two guys on guitars are playing right now and just sang "Wonderwall" ... its so friendly here! Side note: I'm feeling lots better today... knock on wood, the nausea is gone :) Today is dedicated to playing some catch up on homework for tomorrow, aka German verbs and conjugations and EU reading. I read a lot this morning while the girls were still passed out from their eventful night, but the book is dense! We want to walk around a little today too, even though the past two days have been so packed with sightseeing and tours and bike riding. Oh! I forgot to write about our biking adventure!!! on Friday! It was amazing! My stress fracture is still healing so "low-impact" things like bikes are really good for it. After a frustrating beginning to the whole-- paying for the bikes at a machine that has an English option but might as well not because every other direction was German-- it honestly took us forever to pay BUT once we did we were off! We biked all along the river that runs parallel through Salzburg and into some more residential areas which were really pretty and had tons less traffic so we didn't have to stop as often to cross busy streets. I don't know what it is, but biking seriously puts me in the best mood. I probably sound so dorky, but we biked for at least 2 1/2 hours and it was the best time I've had here so far. The houses were so cozy, the people watching was so fun, and I felt like we really took the time to trek through the heart♥ of Salzburg; the place Ava wants us to soon feel comfortable enough to call home.

Pictures, pictures, pictures!!