the hills are alive...

as you all know, i harbor a vein of cheesiness, and my affection for The Sound of Music is one of them. it was the first album i ever owned - my mother bought it for me when i was 2 or 3 - and i learned my scales singing "do, a deer, a female deer..." and we watched it every year on TV religiously. back then my biggest dream was to be "16 going on 17" (though not dating a nazi, of course).

so i've always wanted to make a trip to salzburg. i made it to salzburg but i didn't get a chance to go on the Sound of Music tour - or the Sound of Mucus tour, as Christopher Plummer apparently called it. didn't have a taste of mozartkugel though i did walk past his geburtshaus. next time!