Apologies for not updating the day I said I would..I have more news on the Baroness’ secret plan!
Firstly, I forgot to tell you(the day after I updated), Father has moved the party date forward. Its now in 1 week exactly. Brigitta thinks The Baroness made him move it forward…Don’t know why? Unless Because she has noticed Fraulien Maria is falling in love with Father!! Hmm….Suspicious, We’ll have to get Brigitta to watch out! It was raining so nothing really exciting happened that day.
3 days ago, we did our so long, farewell rehersal outside, as it was sunny(odd for a winter’s day) on the steps. Father and Uncle Max and the Baroness stayed inside as our routine is a surprise. Its for the party. The song is turning out nicely, I don’t know where Fraulien Maria got it from..? Maybe a song book, oh, I’ll have to ask her. Then, after that, we went to Salzburg(Fraulien Maria and us 7) as Father, Uncle Max and Baroness Schraeder. We went for lunch, looked around and went home. Later that day, Father did some more singing to us children again(we sang also) and fraulien Maria(The Baroness, Uncle Max..?? Business upstairs). We sang Edelweiss and also taught Father ‘My favourite things’. We had a laugh! He played guitar and sang Do-re-mi, then it was time for dinner and after dinner, we just went upstairs and did our own things…
2 Days ago, Father(finally!)got a day off his usual business and surprsingly, took us 7 and Fraulien Maria..to VIENNA! Yes, i’m not lying! The Baroness and Uncle max were doing business in Vienna, scouting for Singers for the festival, I think! Oh my goodness, Vienna is beautiful(even though I went there not so long ago). We went for Lunch, looked around the sights and for a treat..THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL to see the Lipazzaner horses. It was wow amazing! Even Kurt loved it..and he usually hates things like this!!! We took a train there and back home, we got home at a good 10:30pm! Straight to bed that evening.
Yesterday, just a plain boring school day, We spent the morning studying and then a bit of the afternoon and after that, we wnt out(again) with Fraulien Maria biking round the lake, It was really fun and we biked for about 2 hours…Father refused to come with us(I wonder why..??), but the thought of him riding a bike is, well, Hilarious! He has never rode a bike in his life-He loved anythign to do with ships, not bikes!
And Today, well, same morning and bit of afternoon with school day. We then after that did some more dancing rehersals for so long, farewell. It was raining again today so we stayed indoors…But we entertained ourselves well, we snag, laughed and joked today! But an early bedtime tonight, 8:00pm on the dot lights out! Its usually 8:30pm, but Father had business to dp and make a phone call at 8:00pm, so thats why…(my evening blogs, I usually sneak out of bed and come to write them). And I hear Footsteps, so i got to go…
Me signing off…
~Louisa Von Trapp~