And Red Bull....basically owns Salzburg.
Therefore, Salzburg gives you wings.
Riiiiiiight?
SAIL.
Just one of the many lessons I learned this past week in Salzburg, Austria.
Salzburg is known for two things:
1) Mozart's birth place
and 2) The Sound of Music filming location
The Red Bull thing is lesser known, but that doesn't make it any less prevalent. All of the stores had Red Bull. All of the restaurants, too.
Was everyone playing Mozart? Nope.
Does Mozart have his own world? Nope.
But Red Bull does:
It's real life.
So, what else did I learn in Salzburg?
1) They have a statue of Abe Lincoln reading a book...and riding a horse. It's like Chuck Norris meets the Old Spice guy, who does that?!
And that's why he was president. Skill.
But it's Austria. So why do they care about Abe Lincoln? Therefore, the statue is in the middle of a forrest, were no one can see it.
Because that makes sense.
2) The Sound of Music was fairly inaccurate
But no less adorable or classic.
At the beginning of the movie, Maria's chillin' on the Untersberg mountain.
You're ready to break into song, aren't you?
Here's the mountain:
Photo cred: Me
Here's town:
Photo cred: Also me
And the red dome on the left is the abbey she would have been running to.
So she went from the top of the mountain, down the mountain, back up the mountain to grab her hat, and then down again to come flying into the abbey three minutes later.
Looks like Maria may have had wings, too.
Go Red Bull.
And then, at the end of the movie, Maria and the Captain and the kids were hiking over the mountain to run away from the Nazis, right? Well....
They were going the wrong way.
AKA, make it over that mountain, and you're in Germany.
Awkward.
3) Flight or fight is real life
Sun was setting and it was getting dark. We were headed back to our hostel.
Crazy guy got on bus. We are talking legitimately crazy guy, ok?
Yeah. Well...
And Dusti and I are looking at each other like "Girl, do you see this?"
Enter drunk guy.
So drunk guy starts screaming at crazy guy...and Dusti and I are about to break a window to get off the bus.
Our stop comes.
We get off immediately.
We hear yelling behind us, in our general direction.
Where they yelling at us?
I don't know.
But we weren't going to hang around to find out.
And we freaking took off running AT A DEAD SPRINT.
RUN FORREST RUN.
Were cars coming?
......maybe.....
But the other side of the street meant being away from crazy/drunk, so off we went.
Then we were power walking away, and made the mistake of turning around to see if anyone was following us.
We thought we saw one of the other women on the bus running.
SO WE RAN AGAIN.
So here we are, yelling at each other to stay out of the line of sight (...because suddenly we are 007...), and we passed Jessica, a girl staying in our room at the hostel, taking a lovely evening walk with her boyfriend.
Jessica: "Run, girls, run!"
Me: "NO, CRAZY PEOPLE."
*Kept running*
Did we stop to tell her what happened?
No.
Did we care?
No.
Were we in fact the crazy people?
Yes. Yes, yes we were.
At least the receptionist at the hostel thought so when we came busting in, breathless and panting like dogs.
Sometimes...you just gotta be better safe than sorry!
And last, but not least...
4) Converse can climb mountains (specifically the Untersberg)
Because if Maria can do it in three minutes, so can you! That's what Climb Every Mountain is about, isn't it? Granted, we used a cable car, and then we hiked, buuuuut you get the picture.
In other news, I am fairly convinced that my roommates do not exist, and I am also convinced that Europe is THE place to be (unless at the actual venue) to watch the World Cup. I went to a watch party at the university last night for the Germany Ghana game....watching geysers of beer shoot up from the crowd as people threw their hands up to celebrate goals was absolutely priceless.
Off to Switzerland tomorrow!
kendall
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