A day after all the students arrived here in Gaming to blue skies and cold crisp air, all 170 of us boarded the big red Austrian busses and headed south to the monastery of Admont.
Admont is in the province of Styria or Steiermark and is a beautiful scenic region and a center for mountaineering and other outdoor sports such as canyoning and rafting. This area is also called the "Green March" because half of the area is covered with forests and one-quarter with meadows, grasslands, vineyards and orchards.
During the school trip, the students visited the famous library with secret passageway doors, the natural history musuem, and of course celebrated mass in the neo-Gothic church which still had their local Christmas creche open for viewing.
The trip wasn't without Austrian goodies either: a four course lunch which included, garlic cream soup, salad, cordon blue, and ending with a local Austrian cake for dessert.
Travels aren't about to slow up either. Tomorrow we are off to Vienna, next weekend to Salzburg and Munich, and then off on a ski trip.
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