Vienna, Erfurt, and Eisenach

You know how they say a picture's worth a thousand words.  Well I am going to see how that will play out.  I am really doing a bad job with this blog as of late...feeling a little guilty....but not enough to make any extensive commentary on the last three weeks of my life.  Here's the important points:

• I visited Vienna and met Kristi, Shannon, and Nancy there
• I finished a chapter of my dissertation! (half-way there, folks)
• I decided to make a Reformation weekend pilgrimage and visited Erfurt (where Luther was a student) and Eisenach (which includes the Wartburg where Luther translated the New Testament)

So, first Vienna:

And then we have Erfurt...

I secretly climbed up into the Augustinerkloister pulpit...well, 'cause this is where Francke preached before he got chased out of town.

lastly, here's a little bit of Eisenach (where a young lady sat down to eat with me, but unfortunately she sat down right as the waitress came to take my money...so our short romance ended in a bit of awkwardness.)  Oh the house is where Luther stayed as a student for a short time.