Pix: Life at a palace, not so bad
Taken in my first hour here. Here's behind the classroom palace…
… and the courtyard of the Meierhof, just a few steps from the palace, where we have our rooms, lounge (where I'm typing) and lectures…
… one of the many ridiculous rooms in the palace (more pix to come)…
… the back of the palace, where we drink wine…
… and continue looking at the mountains.
Post coming later this week: Which of these scenes were actually in The Sound of Music, and what they totally faked you out on.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Seriously wishing I could reach through the computer and steal your spot. Beautiful! And here…it's just HOT and MUGGY and ALL WORK!
July 28th, 2009 at 4:26 PM
DUDE!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow.
Please promise to come back with at least one photo of you spinning Julie Andrews-style on top of that mountain. Also, would it be too much to ask that you force your students to perform this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRjbWV7T-s&feature=related for you each night?
July 28th, 2009 at 5:14 PM
The ballroom seen at the beginning of that shot was inspired by the room seen in pic #3 above. Unfortunately, the interiors were all filmed on a Hollywood set (and the ballroom is just a regular-sized, if also crazy, room in real life), and even the exterior shots of the Von Trapp house were filmed at a different mansion. More on that here later. We're all scheduled to watch the movie Sunday night, Colleen, and I have no doubt there will be singing.
Hike set to happen on a Friday day trip. The spinning meadow is reportedly halfway up, but I'm not sure. Will spin if I make it that far. There's also reportedly beer, pizza and a cable car there, so…
Kristen, off to buy you an air-conditioner — and hide from any hands reaching through my laptop! Hope you all get some relief from those temps soon.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
If I were here I would be running around like a crazy singing nun the entire time.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Wow, wonderful! Keep on sharing!
July 29th, 2009 at 7:23 PM
I'm lovin' the pictures. Please keep them coming. I'm also thrilled to have 'access' to the questions and ongoing dialogue in the Academy. Thanks for including us! :-)
July 30th, 2009 at 2:29 AM
Def more to come! Struggling to find pic-cropping time but have some good ones. A certain hat makes an appearance. New friends here are writing some posts as well, will link to those later today or tomorrow.
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