Friday, May 6, 2011

Fun in the Sun

Recently Leisel and I went on a little adventure to this lake called Attersee. It took a lot of work to get there. First we had to get on the train. Then switch trains. Then switch trains again. Thanks to my momma, I have a book on Austria and it said that there was a cool waterfall so we decided we would start out and walk to find it. As we were walking we saw a sign that said "Burggrabenklamm Wasserfall" 13 KM. I was like whaaaa? I don't want to walk that far. So we saw a bus stop and waited for the bus for an hour. Finally the bus came and we took the bus to the closest stop to the waterfall. It was still 30 minutes walk away. So we walk and walk. I saw a snail! It was HUGE!And I saw a Dandelion :) FINALLY we get to the trail for the waterfall. At first I thought that was the waterfall. And I was like ooh cool... I walked a long ways to see this. But then Leisel and I found a trail. It was closed.. But we went on it anyways. We are good at following rules :) Next we saw this:Oooh so that is pretty cool. We kept walking and we came to a sketchy bridge. Yup we crossed it. After crossing the sketchy bridge we came to the waterfall. It was pretty. The amazing thing about the water and the waterfall is how CLEAR the water is. You could see right through it. After we saw the waterfall, it was about a 15 minute hike to the waterfall, we started back on our way to the bus stop. Here are some pictures of the lake. It was beautiful. When we got back to the bus stop we realized that we had to wait an hour for the bus. They only come every other hour on Saturdays. While we were waiting we heard a band play. Then we saw this:
Did I mention this was April 30th? They were getting ready to set up the MAY POLE! We decided to watch their May Pole setting up ceremony while we waited for the bus. Here are some pictures: Everyone wears their traditional Austrian clothing on May Day. It was fun and funny to see the guys in their Liederhosen and the girls in the Dirndl. So that was cool the watch them set up the May Pole. When the bus finally came. We got to the train station and oh guess what. The train didn't come for an hour. It also only came every other hour. So we decided to go frolic through the fields and practiced our handstands on the train tracks.
All in all it was a really good Saturday.

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