The next scenic spot was Nonnberg, another one of the sights that Sound of Music filming took place. Nonnberg was the abbey that Maria first learned how to be a nun. On the way, we saw a building with a lot of flags hoisting on the wall. Tyler asked us how the flag of Austria was like. We searched our tour book for the answer but it was not easy. Eventually, we found that it had three equal horizontal bands of red, white and red. Our guess was right. The first flag of the building was like this.
When we reached the foot of the little hill that Nonnberg was located, we saw a funny musical instrument. The children liked watching it much. Then we went to the bazaar. We did not notice anything special about the big gold ball. It was Faye to show us eagerly that the big gold ball was on the back cover of our tour guide book.
We bought some e bread for tea. ‘e bread’ was a name Tin created to describe the bread similar to one shown on the first photo below when we first saw it in Germany. Next we ‘climb every mountain, ford every stream’ to Nonnberg.
The ramp below was the road the von Trapp family used to leave the Abbey and head to Switzerland in the movie. In addition, the two German soldiers’ cars were damaged and could not start there.
The abbey was old but we thought it was still in use. There was no entry fee required but things were clean and nice. We thought the money used to maintain that good condition was from the offerings.
I pretended to be the nun that talked with the seven children in the film. Tyler was Liesl, telling me, the nun, that they wanted to see Maria.
After imitating the movie scene, we ate ‘e-bread’ for tea.
Besides e-bread, Big Sis also brought some raisins for the kids. Ron grabbed a handful.
Time to go.
We took a bus back to the hotel.
We bought something for dinner that day. On the way walking back to the hotel, we saw an orange Bumblebee. Trevor, Faye and Tyler loved it very much. Tin explained that they played that toy before. Three years ago when Tin brought Trevor alone to take a plane from Hong Kong to London to meet me, Tyler and Faye, he brought along with him a Transformer Bumblebee to entertain Trevor in case. Therefore, the Bumblebee kept them company the week in Germany. They stayed there while Big Sis, Ron and me went back to the hotel to prepare for dinner.
Big Sis and I were very good partners. We both were trained under the same mother and thus, our housekeeping style were similar. While I was cooking, she helped the children shower. We both liked to have things done quick. Without her, the motivation of cooking the dinner in the hotel room would drop significantly.
That night, the dinner was cup noodles and Fuk Mien with lettuce and salami. We had Guava juice and Mango juice, yoghurt and grapes as well.
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