Sound of Music Favorites

  "Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver white Winters that melt into Spring, These are a few of my favorite things."

                                                               -The Sound Of Music

I can probably sing this song forwards and backwards. Unfortunately, it has gotten harder and harder for me to watch the movie. I know this might be a little shocking to everyone, but I only have "The Sound of Music" on VHS. I haven't gotten the movie on DVD, but that is enough about the actual movie. What I really want to talk about is the amazing tour I went on in Salzburg in 2007. 

   

Rewind 9 years. I was in Kindergarten and my dad was given the opportunity to teach study abroad in Italy. My family took this as an invite to travel Europe, only actually being in the town where my dad was teaching a few days a week. As one of our side trips we went to Salzburg, Austria, and went on an awesome Sound of Music site tour. 

We got to see the fountain where Maria sings about going to the Von Trapp house to be the children's nanny. Of course, being my six year old self, I absolutely had to sing and dance around the fountain (though I would totally do it again if I could). Also, we got to go to the abbey where the scenes with the nuns are shot. They also shot the scenes where the Von Trapps are running away. (The pictures are below) Lastly, we got to see the gazebo where Liesl and Rolf sing and dance together. Sadly you couldn't go in to the gazebo, but it was still fun to look at.

The tour in Salzburg was amazing, and I only got to touch on some of the things we did. I came home wanting to watch The Sound of Music, singing Edelweiss, and pretending to be Maria non-stop. The song, the movie, and the tour are definitely some of my favorite things.