Melk

On Thursday, we headed to Vienna at 7 A.M. :/ On our way, we stopped to visit Mauthausen. Mauthausen was quite a bit different than Dachau. Mauthausen wasn't just a concentration camp, it was a death camp and was the last concentration camp to be liberated in 1943. If you got told you were going to Mauthausen, you knew that the possibility of you making it out of there alive was very slim. It was extremely emotional. I couldn't take pictures. It was really weird considering it was SO PRETTY and there were so many horrific things occurring there. After Mauthausen, they thought we would need something to cheer us up a little bit so we stopped in Melk next. Melk consisted of a monestary/abbey and a private school. It was GORGEOUS!!!

We had a guided tour through Melk and it was so amazing! I couldn't use my flash, obviously, so they didn't really turn out all that well. One of my FAVORITE things about it was the library.
It reminded us of the library in the Beauty and the Beast...so we took a picture in it. :)
I'm not really sure what this is but it looked neat lol
this was the really cool stairway that was an optical illusion. this is looking up, looking down looked the same but there's a mirror at the bottom so it made it look REALLY long and it was just really cool lol
this was the church in Melk which was so freaking beautiful!!!!!
That is my trip to melk! :) Next stop was Vienna :)