Salzburg

Hallo everybody! I doubt many people other than family are even reading this, so we are probably going to switch over to posting every 2 days or so. The ipad wont let us type these on it so we either have to find a computer or do it on my phone! Anyways, yesterday we caught a train to Salzburg out of Vienna. We got there early, but after sitting for a while, we didnt see anything about our train on any of the information boards. We finally asked someone, and they said that it left from a train station on the other side of Vienna. So we ran to the metro line, got to the other side of town, and literally ran onto our train as it was starting to move! One cool thing on all of our trains so far is we have sat in places that seem way to nice for our second class pass, but no one has said anything to us, so I guess we'll just keep doing it until we cant! It was a beautifully green ride the closer we got to Salzburg, and when we got off, we found out our hotel was just down the road from the station. The signage wasnt the best, but we found it eventually, and it is even nicer than the place in Vienna! In contrast to our Malaysia trip, we feel like kings thus  far on this one! Apparently there aren't really hostels here in Salzburg. We walked about 20 minutes down to the river and crossed it into what we have been calling "city center". I'm not sure thats the best name for it, but its a quaint little section of town with tons of shopping and very old-world. It was a little rainy and overcast ever since we got off of the train, but it sort of fit the area. We walked around the alleys (seeing a trend here?), shared a kaseweiner, and made our way back to where our hotel was. We were tired of doing NOTHING with our nights though, and as no one seemed to be able to help us find any type of nightlife here in Salzburg outside of some bars with 3 old dudes watching miscellaneous sports, we decided to catch a movie. It just so happened that 1 of only 2 movies they were showing in English that day was starting 2 minutes from when we got there, so we watched Star Trek last night in 3D! Im sure the Great Gadsby is excellent, but Star Trek was amazing also! Highly recommend it! After it got out, we were pretty hungry, so we found some little diner/restaurant/indoor food stand to grab a bite at. I ordered a Doner Kebab, and Jen had a Diavolo pizza. They were the same price so we figured the pizza was a littler personal pan one, but when the food came out, my Doner was as big as my head and Jen's pizza was barely smaller than a medium Hungry Howies! Needless to say, we had leftovers, and that was our breakfast today. We woke up around 9, walked down to the train station, and caught a train to Werfen about 25 miles south of Salzburg. Once again, we misread the ticket, finally asked for help, and ended up running on to our train. After about an hour, we arrived in Werfen and were JUST in time to catch the bus up the mountain to the reason we went to Werfen: the ice caves. Little did we know that once the bus dropped us off at the "top" it was a 20 minute steep walk to a cable car that dropped us off even higher, followed by ANOTHER 20 minute steep walk to the entrance to the cave. We were out of breath. We arrived just in time to catch a tour guide taking a group in, so we hopped in with them. It was cool, they gave every couple people this homemade lantern that consisted of a kerosene tin with a little flame coming out of the front with a metal plate behind the flame to direct the light! Anyways, we were worried the caves would be underwhelming, but they were the exact opposite. We walked up at least 500 meters and 1km deep into this cave, the whole time surrounded by gigantic ice features! We didnt understand a word the tour guide said, so we didn't learn too much about them, but it was definitely an amazing experience. By the time we made it back down the 2 climbs, we were just in time for the bus that took us back down the rest of the mountain. The recurring theme of yesterday and today has been "just in time". It is insane how well timing has worked out for us these past two days! Once at the bottom, we were still freezing from the caves so we grabbed some hot chocolate and talked to an English couple for about an hour. They were a really neat couple who own a bed and breakfast in the countryside of England! We could have talked for longer, but we still had not eaten so we said goodbye and found a restaurant down the street. We each had pasta, Jen had wine, and I had beer. We had an hour and a half until our train back so Jen had a lot of wine and I had a lot of beer. The trip back to Salzburg did not seem quite as long! Once back though we settled down for a while, glad to not be climbing any more mountains for the day, and eventually made it back out for a Doner that we split since we ate such a late lunch. Tomorrow we head to Munich, not sure what we are doing or where we are staying, but we will let you know when we find out! Love you guys! Prost!