I talked to my mom last night. She was so excited. She wants to go back to Austria some time.

I haven't heard her so happy and giddy before. She's clearly confused, but she was so happy! At one point she was telling me something about the bike paths or walking paths or something, and she said, "I didn't remember they had those." Since she's never been there before, it's not surprising she wouldn't remember that. My sister says she'd look out the train window and say, "Now, what county is this?" thinking she was in Kansas somewhere. Or she'd pull out her car keys and ask where she'd left her car so she could drive home.

But she was so happy. I'm so glad she went even if it was apparently a huge strain on her. My thanks to Austra - a country which I'd previously not thought much about. Isn't that where The Sound of Music story is from? What language do they speak? German?