Adventures in Austria...and beyond!: First Weekend...

My first weekend in Salzburg was pretty much great. It started Friday when most of the group headed out to the Augustiner (where monks brew their own beer). We ate pretzels as well and they were amazing. haha. This was featured on Passport to Europe with Samantha Brown and was every bit as good if not better. You get your stein and rinse it out/cool it down at this fountain. Then go up to the monk to get it filled. We then sat at big long table and basically drank and told stories. Good times. Oh and a monk hit on me! Shame on him!

Picture of the inside sign and stein

What it looks like on the inside (there are lots of rooms like this)

My little stein

Caitlin's BIG stein

Part of our group there

Me rinsing/cooling my stein - haha

We then wanted to head to Republik for an 80s party, but when we got there the cover charge was 10 Euros and we had already spent a lot before this so we decided to go to Shamrock where there was live music. It was absolutely packed and we got a small table in the back - well I was standing. Macy of course saw this guy and wanted to take a picture with him, he could barely speak any English. All he could say was "Dance on the billard table" we were like....umm NO. But anyways themusic started back up we went to the "dance floor" and were smushed together dancing to American music (they play that a LOT). I then couldn't breathe and was getting tired so we worked our way out of the mass of people and went home. Last thing I see is Macy getting swallowed into the crowd. We waited outside with Emily until her bus came (25 minutes) and we see Macy come out of the bar with those guys about 10 minutes later and they are screaming PARTY!! What a sight...

I thought this was hilarious - Macy dancing and singing - Pretty much the looks we get all the time

On Saturday we woke up and went to Europark (the mall) again to buy some food. We decided before this to have a taco and margarita night, but there is basically no such thing as Margarita mix and the tequila is really expensive... Sad face. Macy gave us directions to her house (She is living in a home stay and was here last semester as well - but living somewhere new) and we started off on a bus journey to find her house. We took the bus like 10 stops and got off at some really long German word. The only thing we knew after that was to cross the road, go around the Tabak-Trafik, keep walking for a while, see a church on the right, its across from that and wait by the green sign outside the cafe.....HA. It was basically awesome - walking around Salzburg at night in a place where we had no idea and then we just started cracking up because...well I dont really know. We only had to call her once to make sure we were on track...impressive. We then went up to her and Carly's flat. They have like their own apartment type thing and the family lives across the street. Pretty sweet deal huh?

We then all climbed up the stairs to her place and started making tacos. They obviously don't have refried beans here so we got some type of chili/kidney bean....yeah. It was cool though. We ate soft tacos and it has never tasted so wunderbar (wonderful). Then we got a huge kick out of watching "Do you want to be a German superstar?" - like American Idol....wow. Someone that Macy knows makes their own wine so we just drank some of that and it was excellent! We then headed to our favorite place - O'Malleys and met some other American students going to Salzburg College and also some other people from America just traveling. They were pretty nice and bought us some drinks as well. Oh! and I didn't have any money on me (it was in my wallet back at the table) so I was like "all I have is 1 Euro left" and our favorite bartender Danny-boy gave me a drink for 1 Euro that had RedBull in it. Nice deal right? AND I found out that RedBull is made here in Salzburg!

Emily and I cooking tacos!

Around the dinner table

Caitlin, Natalie, Emily at O'Malleys

This past Sunday I went to the Hohensalzburg Fortress - basically it was built a long time ago in stages and it looked over and protected the city from high above. Long story....hahah. But here are some pictures from the top of it (you can see mostly the whole city) and it was basically awesome - like everything else around here.