A memorable trip to Salzburg

In June, I was lucky enough to go to Austria with my family and school choir. We visited the capital, Vienna, and the famous city of Salzburg. While in Salzburg, a city named after the salt production based there in earlier years, I went on one very memorable tour, a "Sound of Music" movie tour.

This movie was filmed in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The tour allowed me to see many of the places filmed in Salzburg, such as the fountain and garden archway in "Do Re Mi," the forest path where Maria (Julie Andrews) gets off the bus while singing "I Have Confidence," and the lake Maria and the children fall into.

My favorite place was the little gazebo where Liesl (Charmian Carr) and Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte) sang "16 Going on 17."

Our guide also told us stories about the real von Trapp family, upon whom the movie was based, and things that happened on set. For example, the little girl who played Gretl, Kym Karath, couldn't swim. In a scene where they fall into the lake, she was supposed to be caught by Maria. But because the boat flipped the wrong way, she fell away from Maria and nearly drowned.