Lisa and the gals celebrating Lori's birthday. This is the happy birthday stuff that she ordered for my birthday that got here two weeks after my birthday. They offered to send a giant "belated" to paste into all the banners and stuff but we declined.

Lisa and Theresa Odom. We went to church for the first time when we got here and they asked us our names. They said "oh yeah, there are some other Odom's here". They are from Mississippi and their kids call Lisa "Aunt Lisa".

The water was white because of all the lime that was leeching out of the alps due to extra heavy rains. Or it could be that the Odom brothers are washing out paint brushes upstream.

Nice view of the alps peeking through the clouds.

This is what happens when you let a drunk mule plow.

Shopping was cool here and also there were lots of good places to eat.

Lisa in front of a fountain in Mozart square.

Mozart was from Salzburg. They let you know this when you're in town. Aside from being famous for making music, he also was a fine candy maker. They push these candies on you called Mirabel Mozartkugeln or what I call Mozart Balls.

Beautiful, but very uncomfortable, church pew in the church that Mozart was baptized in. He also was the church organist for a time.

Lisa coming out of what the austrian's call "The John".

Amazing what a little spackle will do.

The house of Mozart's mother and sister. Their fame in candle making was only eclipsed by their more famous brother/son up the road.

I think I look like the miner from the village people.

Me and tools. Lisa said I look like a deviant in this picture.

An old wheelbarrow that someone had been looking for for a long time I'll bet.

Me pretending to lick the salt rock. The girls on the other side however were not pretending.

"Pipes through the ages". The way they mine salt is that they drill a hole, fill it with water, pump the salty water out, and then evaporate the water. They used to use wooden pipes believe it or not.

This is actual salt on the wall. Notice the moisture from people licking it.

Salt Mime! Ha!

I went through a door and saw this. Guess it must have been another dimension.

This is the slide you can go down in the mine. I'll admit i wanted to chicken out. Lisa thought it was cool however so we went.

Lisa in the salt mine. Most of the pictures came out dark here (it is a mine).

Pretty scenery from our salt mine trip over the mountains.

We went by this lake on our sound of music tour. I was apparently the only person on the tour who hadn't seen the movie. Being on a bus full of Americans singing along to the sound of music songs seemed smaltzy to me.

Lisa and I in front of the church where the wedding was filmed.

Lisa with a stone dwarf. These are the dwarves the children play on while singing and such.

Me helping a stone dwarf across the street. I tried to help for a very long time.

Cows.

This is the red domed abbey where Maria was a Nun as a girl. This is where they actually got married. They wouldn't let them film inside so they filmed the wedding scenes somewhere else.

Honey, I shrunk the Zac!"

Lisa and some Roses. They were very nice, as is she.

Lisa and I in front of the Gazeebo where the "Gazeebo Scene" where they dance around was filmed. It is locked now because people were reinacting the scene jumping from bench to bench and would break limbs.

Lisa and I in front of the main dude from the sound of music (capt somebody) house. This is where they filmed the "back of the house" scenes and one of the little children almost drowned in this lake during filming.

The funniest thing about this picture is that we didn't know we had to pay 1 Euro to use this prop. We didn't know it till after we took 2 pictures. Enjoy this one, it's a 5 dollar picture.

An automated pez dispenser. You put money in, pez comes out as the story goes.