Myrna & Gunther Does Austria!!

Hello one and all! Myrna here! Let me begin by saying, it is so good to be home safe and sound and back at my trusty Olivetti once more! I understand mother did a very nice job ‘filling’ in for me, while Gunther and I were away on our six-week tour of Austria and all points in between! Of course I have spent this week removing the remains of mother’s overzealous late night ‘typings’ from my trusty old “Oli”. It’s amazing how many little cocktail “umbrellas” and cherry stems there were in the typebars!! Not to mention a rather curious amount of Rum all over the keyboard! I guess mother stood by her moto; “Never type unless you have a cocktail close by!!”
I wish you all could have been with Gunther and me. My what a time we had “Yodel-la-hee Hoo-ing” across the Alps!! It’s amazing how little a sound can cause so much snow to race down a hill in an Avalanche! The tour guide assured me that although I had the lungs of Ethel Merman, he was certain it wasn’t my fault! The road was only closed for two days.
Anyways, as promised, I do have some wonderful Kodachromes that I’d like to share with all of you. It’ll be just like you were there with us on this glorious respite! So just settle back and let me get the Kodak Carousel ready; as I just turn down these lights. Here we go!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. As you can see here in this first slide, that’s Gunther waving as he boards the train as we depart Salzburg. Well…that is… you could see him waving if there was more than just his legs showing. Gunther insisted on getting a this new Bell & Howell for our trip, and I must admit, I never did find the view finder on the thing! However, isn’t his Lederhosen just terrific!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Now in this slide, there’s me next to a VERY large keg of Bavarian beer in Klagenfurt am Worthersee! Yes, that is Gunther’s thumb covering my face, but at least you can get a glimpse of my ‘Authenic’ Maria Von Trapp dress! Some guy calling himself… “Captain”; kept coming up to me and asking me if my hills were alive?
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Oh; this slide is some woman , with two rather LARGE….. Beer steins, pummeling the man called “Captain”; senseless.
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Here’s a picture of Vienna! When Gunther asked where they made the little sausages, everyone just looked at him stupefied. ( I told him Vienna Sausages were not what Vienna was famous for…silly man…. it was for those little vanilla cookies!)
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Here’s Mozart’s home. Personally I think it could do with a coat of paint! Not much better on the inside either, I might mention. However, his piano was quite nice!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. This is Innsbruck, in the Tyrol province. The Winter Olympics were held here last in 1976, the year that Dorothy Hamill won her Olympic Gold medal. Yes….that’s Gunther with both legs in a cast. I told him he shouldn’t try the luge!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. And here’s……wait a minute…..this slide isn’t Austria. Oh, for crimy’s sake….it’s MOTHER! I am not believing this!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. WHAT! Oh my god! This is mother and Dominique on a nude beach in Cabo! Don’t look!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Holy……!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. Ugh…..!
Click….zzzzzzzechk. But……!
I think I’m just going to unplug this projector and get these lights back on. There!
Honestly, I don’t know how Mother managed to get those slides into my vacation presentation. Who knows…. that woman has managed to get her drunken mug spread more than Hugh Hefners’ playmates! She is NOT to be trusted. I don’t know why she insists on embarrassing me like this. I mean…after all; I’m the one who has always been there to clean up her ugly “little” messes! Well, not to worry faithful readers, I will be sure to check ALL my slides before we try this again! Thank god Mother’s Day only comes once a year!