July 20 Boring Stuff For Adults

We visit the Dom cathedral, a marvel of architecture and sculpture that has Therese and me in rapture and has the girls, in dutiful conformity with the rules of the family-sight-seeing genre, hanging on our arms like chimpanzees, mewling, "Can we just gooooooooooo now?"

To extend their torment and ours, we go next to the Salzburg Museum's new exhibit on the history of Alpine art. We get in free on our newly minted museum-member family pass, and it is just as well, for the exhibit is as obscenely dull as the description on the flyer had promised it would be. Hell, even I was bored. The freeness of the admission offers us a guiltless escape to the ice cream parlour, a deft move that restores the faith of the children in their parents' judgment.