On Friday we went back to the Berchtesgaden area. We got tickets for the Salzbergwerk Salt Mines and then walked around the town until it was time for our salt mine tour.
We saw some historic areas of Berchtesgaden (some made famous by pictures of U.S. soldiers coming into the town in 1945).
We had a nice lunch and then we went to the salt mine. We dressed in "protective gear" and then took a train 1/2 mile into the mountain. We rode wooden slides from level to another and took a boat across an underground salt lake. The kids enjoyed it. We thought it was a little cheesy. They tried to make the extraction more exciting than it is in real life.
We drove into Salzberg afterwards for dinner and met a friend, Allen Rudolph. Alan and I were in the same group of 20 teachers last year in Japan. We had dinner with him and his girlfriend, Kim. He bought a BMW with European delivery and is traveling around for two weeks. It was great to see him again.
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