I am 16, going on 17...

It feels like I've just settled down from my last trip to Portugal and now I'm packing my bags again for another whirlwind adventure.  This coming week is Semana Santa, or holy week.  The university closes down and we have a full week to travel.  Actually, this is almost a compulsory vacation for all SLU study abroad students because university housing closes down for this week too.

Anna, Liz, and I will be making our rounds through Germany and Austria.  For ease of planning, we each decided to organize the itinerary and do research for a different leg of the trip.  I'm in charge of Vienna, so I hope I have chosen the best things for us to see!  Tomorrow morning we will be flying into Munich.  From there, we are taking a six hour train to Vienna.  We will be in Vienna until Monday morning, when we will take a shorter train ride to Salzburg.  In Salzburg I am most excited to go on The Sound of Music Tour!  I can finally live my dream of being Liesl and frolic in the hills.  Wednesday night we are making our way back to Munich.  We will have one day to explore the city, and another day to visit Dachau concentration camp, which was the first concentration camp opened in Germany.  I'm sure it will be a very sobering experience, but also such an important thing to see.  We are sleeping in the airport on Friday night, and will be safely home next Saturday afternoon.

"The hills are alive with the sound of music 

With songs they have sung for a thousand years

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.  

My heart wants to sing every song it hears."