Long Lost Photos from Austria Part 1

I remembered today that I don't think I ever showed anyone except for Kyle my Austria pictures. It was a beautiful place and a big time in my life and my blog readers/family and friends were very supportive of me while I was there. I was reading through some of my old entries from when I was there, my one horrible day in particular, and I was very touched by the comments people left to encourage me. I'm thankful for all of you and for your love and support. You don't always realize how much people like you affect your life until you find yourself in a place where you no longer have them close. I definitely learned a lot that trip and while it wasn't always fun, I want to show you some of these pictures to honour that time of my life and to share some of the beauty and good times with you. (there are lots of them though, so I might just post a couple today and more later). Also, it seems I took the most pictures when I was out exploring by myself, so there are hardly ever any people in them, I'll try to include as many people pictures as I can but you may need to prepare for a scenic tour of Austria.

We'll start with our outing to the Armoury. It chronologically isn't a good starting point but we had lots of fun there with our guide and got to try on the armour, which people normally don't get to do.

Here's me in a helmet:


Here's our guide-man (he was so excited to get his picture taken. He said even though he's worked there for a long time, he's only tried the armour on once and never in a picture... he gave us his email address so we could send him these):



me in my full suit looking ready to fight. It's extremely heavy. I cannot imagine being very nimble in this stuff...



here's the whole crew. don't mess with us...



and these pictures are from a day when I went exploring on my own. First I went for a walk around my neighborhood (and got lost a bit) but found these creepy little lawn ornaments:



and then I took the tram in to the city



this is the tram station we stopped at every day



and then I went to the look out point on top of the hill that our cave theatre was in. You can see the entrance to the cave and then stairs up to the clock tower on top. Apparently it was built during the war, there were canons and stuff on top of the hill and then the cave was a bunker of some sort. It was so beautiful up there.







This was apparently my favourite thing to take pictures of. It's a water cistern that they used when they lived on the hill.







And here is a view of the city. The blue globby thing is their Kunsthaus or art gallery



And that concludes the selected pictures of Austria part 1... stay tuned (if you're interested)