Hi from Salzburg, Austria!

Hi everyone, wow, is Salzburg a beautiful city. I forgot to mention yesterday when we were at the church in the center plaza area, they had a section chain linked off and it looked like there was archaeological digging going on. What we found out was that they had discovered human bones in an old cemetry that the original church had been over and later the direction of the church had been changed. So they had uncovered what looked like square stone pillar bases and we saw two sets of workers laboring very diligently with small paint brushes over exposed human bone skeletons. It was cool to watch.
Well today we got up and caught the Panoramic tour bus that in the morning took us out to a salt mine about 45 minutes from town. Being a little nervous about going under ground in anything that resembled a cave, my mind was at war about not wanting to miss anything and getting the heck out of there. Well this tour was coooolllll! We rode a train car in (after we dressed in overalls over our clothes). We then traveled deep into the mountain where they had drilled for underground salt deposits. We walked around looking at the drilling equipment and you could see the salt right in the rock. It looked red because of iron ore deposits. Apparently they would look for large deposits, flood it with water, and then the pockets would sit for 30 years as the brine would settle out. We took a boat ride across one of these large ponds of settlement. It was kinda creepy but cool at the same time. We also got to go down two actual wood slides. You would sit on your butt just like Splash Mtn. at Disneyland and then slide down quite a long slide to a lower level. We got to do this twice. They showed us a pump that had runned for 110 years (1817-1927) without any breakdowns. Amazing technology for several hundred years. We've got pictures of us going down the slides. Pretty funny.
Then we came back and went on the Original Sound of Music Tour. This was actually cool. We had a tour guide who knew her stuff. We drove around Salzburg and saw the bridge and grass bank where they played in the drapes clothes. We saw the Mirabell gardens where they go around singing the Do Re Me song, saw the Abby up on the hill (hope to go find this abby tomorrow) for all the Nun scenes that is still an actual abby for Nuns today), then we went out for a drive to see all the lake district. We saw about 5 of about 50 lakes with all their local villages. Gorgous! We stopped at Mondsee lake and village where Julie Andrews married Christopher Plummer in the beautiful wedding scene. Saw the church, wow, and several more scenes. Plus we saw so much of the countryside. It was a full day but we loved it.
Our days are full and we get tired. But we are trying to cram in as much as we can in our short stays. But boy do I have dreams of where i would love to come back to.
Anyone is welcomed to come watch the Sound of Music at our house, just be prepared for "we saw that! we saw that too!" (just kidding!)
Miss all of you a lot. Hope you are all well. Love from all of us to all of you.