We got up early to get a good start for our weekend in Salzburg. Tom decided to go visit the young man in the hospital before we leave so we all wait on him; all ready to go.  It must be 10:00 or after when we leave, and it starts raining. We get to Salzburg a little after 12 and find a parking place and walk about 1 block and find a pizza place – small, crowded and filled with the high school crowd!  But it’s raining so we go in anyway. No table was left but an American man and his wife invite us to sit at their big table; they are about ready to leave. Very good pizza, and it’s still raining when we’re through so we rush back to the car.

Barbara, Morris and Kristopher in front of the Schloss Leopoldskron Palace in
Salzburg where the movie Sound of Music was filmed.

On our way to the guest house where we’re staying we stop at a very large store – a lot like our K-Mart  - to pick up diapers for Andrew. (Here I buy my beer stein). We go on to the guest house (by the way it’s the same one Brenda and Tom spent their first 10 days in here when they first arrived in Austria a year ago) get situated in. The lady who runs it has 2 children (a boy about 10 and a girl about 8) and she is very glad to see Brenda, Kristopher, Jeremy and the new baby Andrew.

We decide to ride over to Berchtesgaden, German (about 20 minutes away). This is the city where Hitler had his Eagles Nest, and the Americans now own a big hotel, tennis courts and recreation area.  It’s used for a recreation retreat area for the American Armed Forces. We went to the hotel dining room for an American meal of T-Bone steaks, baked potatoes, ice tea (with ice) and paid for in American dollars.  It was good and we all enjoyed it – it was a beautiful, nice dining room, (on the ritzy side).  In the gift shop I bought Jeremy an Austrian hat with a feather for his birthday (and because he did not have one to go with his Austrian outfit and Kristopher did).  Got back at seven, just in time for Tom to leave for his first meeting. Oh, why we’re here it’s the Austrian Baptist Convention this weekend. (It’s like our Florida Baptist Convention). Tonight they are having the business meeting so Brenda isn’t going but she’ll go tomorrow. Brenda, Morris, and I played Uno tonight until about 9:30.

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