Ok, one final word on this Sunday\u2019s Oscars and then we can move on\u2026<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t see a single, solitary movie in the whole line-up.\u00a0 LIE!\u00a0 Ok, I did see that one with Reese Witherspoon on the hiking trail.\u00a0 Well, and also that one with all the fairytale singing that went on so long I fell asleep right about the time all the giant-laying-waste-to-the-village stuff happened.\u00a0 But other than that?\u00a0 Nada.\u00a0 And if that makes me an L to the O to the S-E-R, then what does that make Hubby?\u00a0 \u2018Cause he didn\u2019t see the Reese one, only the fairytale singing one.\u00a0 Hi, Honey!\u00a0 Sorry about that cold I gave you.\u00a0 But in all fairness, you did give it to me first.<\/em><\/p>\n But where I\u2019m really going with all of this is that JULIE ANDREWS WAS THERE!<\/p>\n And?\u00a0 LADY GAGA REPRISED ALL OF MY FAVORITE SONGS FROM \u201cSOUND OF MUSIC\u201d!!!!<\/p>\n Why all caps?\u00a0 BECAUSE I LOVELOVELOVE \u201cSOUND OF MUSIC\u201d AND JULIE ANDREWS!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n If I could, I would skin Julie Andrews and wear her as a little hoodie.\u00a0 But in a good, I completely LOVE her and really just want to BE her sort of way.\u00a0 Not in a creepy, it puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose again sort of way.\u00a0 The only thing I might consider changing about my hoodie would be the hair length.\u00a0 I always wanted Julie to have slightly longer hair so that when I wear the hoodie it detracts from the double chin.\u00a0 Hers, not mine.<\/em><\/p>\n So it goes without saying that since I LOVE Julie Andrews and since I LOVE the \u201cSound of Music,\u201d the last time I was in Salzburg, Austria, I spent one whole day taking the \u201cSound of Music\u201d tour.\u00a0 And yes, it\u2019s a thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s an actual thing all the cool people in the world pay money to do.\u00a0 Cough, cough, nerd, your own self.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n You get to ride in a van and see the alpine meadow where Julie starts off the movie with her famous twirl.\u00a0 You get to see the church where Maria and Captain my Captain get married.\u00a0 (The fun fact here would be that while they actually got married at Nonnberg Abbey where the real Maria was a nun-in-training, the marriage scene for the movie however \u2013 where Julie\u2019s long, long veil trails down the aisle behind her \u2013 was actually filmed at Collegiate Church.)\u00a0 You see the Festival Hall where the Von Trapps sang the night of their escape.\u00a0 At tour\u2019s end, you even get to see the Untersberg Mountain that the family had to walk over\u00a0after Austria\u2019s borders closed.<\/p>\n Finally, because it\u2019s dark and you spent all your money on the tour, you get to walk two miles up a weird, wooded hill to your bed and breakfast with its smelly, shared bathroom.\u00a0 At which point you realize the hills around Salzburg are alive with the sound of\u2026Nazi foot soldiers running right ATCHA through the forest!!! \u00a0GAAAH!!<\/em>\u00a0 Oh, ho ho.\u00a0 Of course not. \u00a0Don\u2019t be silly.\u00a0 That\u2019s actually the sound of HEDGEHOGS.\u00a0 They\u2019re nocturnal.\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 And they make a heartstopping amount of foot soldier noise (if you\u2019ve got Nazis on the brain) as they snuffle through the underbrush.\u00a0 My advice is to always, always buy the Sound of Music flashlight souvenir so you can see what the hills are alive with \u2013 at night \u2013 in the woods near Salzburg.<\/p>\n So\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n That\u2019s it about the Oscar Awards.\u00a0 That\u2019s the final word.\u00a0 To your mother.\u00a0 We are now free to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, one final word on this Sunday\u2019s Oscars and then we can move on\u2026 I didn\u2019t see a single, solitary movie in the whole line-up.\u00a0 LIE!\u00a0 Ok, I did see that one with Reese Witherspoon on the hiking trail.\u00a0 Well, and also that one with all the fairytale singing that went on so long I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[365,367,364,366],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}