The Danube Valley

So we've been spending alot of time on these pictures lately, Alden's comp is exhausted from, the hours of uploading, but we're getting used to it, and hope everyone is enjoying them. Last week, Monday whatever the date was, we had a school trip to the Danube Valley, we just got those pics up yesterday. It was a beautiful little valley known for its vineyards, and the river which used to be a major trade route. We spent the afternoon hiking up a mountainside of an Austrian castle ruin where Richard the Lionhearted was held captive, you'll see more on that in the pictures but it was a breathtaking view from the top. Then we headed to a neat Austrian restaurant, the building was huge and I forget the name of it but we had our first taste of an Austrian soup that is really common around here with its strips of pancake in the broth, it was really yummy for an Austrian food which tends to be a bit bland and tasteless, very basic. So anyways, we learned to say "thank you"in German: Danke!
The rest of last week consisted of more settling in and starting classes and all that, still alot to get used to but we're having a ball! That's about it, I turn it over to Alden now.
Enjoy the pics! Guten Tag!
-cath*