Salt of the Earth

by the way, I'm having a hard time with these keyboards, they are totally different from an American keyboard!

We went to Austria today, Salzberg actually. Just took a quick trip here on the train and I'm now taking a few minutes before our train home departs to catch up on a few things. This is a storybook city! So cute, with little colorfully painted houses and what a surprise it was when we found out that they were having a beer festival too! I think they have 52 of these a year, one every week and just tell everyone that it's a once a year festival.

We took a trip to the salt mine, so if you know either me or Rob at all, you know this one was made for us... haha. They give you a quick overview, in German and then you're off in a mine cart for a 10 minute trip in the pitch dark in a tiny little tunnel. When you finally arrive, you're in the salt mine, and they gave a great and very informative tour about how they have been extracting salt from here for the past 100 years. Then you get out of the mine cart and hop on a slide down a huge hill 100 feet to the mine. No way that would ever happen in AMerica, someone would sue.

At the end, they leave you with a small shaker of salt. I plan to use it on my next brezel.

Ciao... see you in Italy :)