Marionette Museum

In the castle on the hill was the Marionette Museum. In the Sound of Music they do a Marionette performance. "The Lonely Goatherd" It was very 'short but sweet.' It's a shame that we couldn't go see one of the performances. 

Castle on the hill

Some more photos from the castle on the hill.

The toilet. Ashynn and I looked down the hole and we couldn't see the end!

The hills are alive with the sound of Music

As most of you know, the outside parts of 'The sound of Music' were filmed in parts of Austria, mostly in Salzburg. We rented a car and drove from Vienna to there in a couple of hours. We went to our hotel then went up a big elevator to the top of a hill. We could see all of Salzburg from up there. Then we walked through a beautiful forest and went to a castle. It was nice.

View of the castle

Mosaic of Salzburg

View

More view

Even more views! :)

La Spanish Riding School

We went to the Spanish Riding school and did a guided tour. It was nice except we couldn't take photos or pet the horses. One of the horses kept trying to lick Ashlynn's nose!! It was really cute!

These two photos were taken from outside.

After the School we got this photo with Pinocchio 

Inspired by Gaudi?

We walked over to the Hundertwasser museum. We didn't go in the museum, but peeked in the garden. The architecture is really strange, modern, like Gaudi. We then went to his village. It was really cool, a little place inside with natural light and nice little stores and a art gallery/shop. After that we walked back to the museum to eat lunch. Nice, but how are you meant to eat when your chair can't sit on the floor properly!? (The floor was kind of curvy!)

Even thought these bathrooms might be advertised in all of the tourist books it wasn't worth the money. If you want to see cool bathrooms, just go eat lunch at the museum. The bathrooms are cooler there (just if you were wondering-they still are in the style of Hundertwasser)

Inside the little village

Outside the village

The garden in the museum, also  cafe

Immensely scary clown

At the Prater on of the entrances of the rides was a gigantic clown! Really creepy!

Ghost town Prater

The next day, the Monday we went to the amusement park in the center of Vienna (Prater). Well, it was more like a fun fair. You paid for each ride individually. Because the weather was a bit yucky and it was a Monday, there was nobody there! It was a ghost town! Less than half the rides were open and on both the rides that Ashlynn and I went on, we were the only people. We wanted to go on the high swings, (when I say high, I mean REALLY high!) but it wasn't open. 

Ashlynn and I did go on two other rides, both of them roller coasters.......