Sorry it has taken me a while to blog. mid-terms were this week, and the internet in the computer lab was down...so....you know...ok. this weekend. we went to interlaken, switzerland and i think it is by far one of my favorite places. i mean, ive only gone to 4 other countries since i got here (only, haha)...but its my favorite out of them.
ok, so thursday night we get on this bus to find out that the organization we went through, which is usually ridiculously full...like 3 buses, hundreds of kids...theres one bus. 10 of us. me, laura, kim, stef, danielle, jess, and traci all went together. and then the three other girls were only there cuz stef is friends with one from a class and told her to come. so we got to spread out which was awesome. and we watched a bunch of movies - guy movies (you'll shortly understand the title of this blog). slept a little. and got there in pretty good time.
so its like 2 in the morning, and kim and i are questioning about snowboarding...so we are told that we have to be at the rental shop at 8 int he morning, so of course we just go and pass out.
so friday morning, we get up at like 7, throw on some clothes, get our coats and hats and stuff together and go to have our breakfast at our hostel, Balmers. we get down there, and you have your choice of oatmeal and a fruit, or toast and bread adn jam and stuff. so we are like, what a great breakfast...but this bread was ridiculously good! and so was the jam and the honey. delicious. so we walk over to th eplace, and they're like, you any good? to kim, and shes like, no. and we rent pants and they give her boots, and they're like you. and im like not at all, they're like beginner, and im like oh yea. so they give me a board and show me how to strap my feet in and all that, and then they send us off.
so we get on this bus that we think we're supposed to get on. then we decide to just follow all the other people with snowboards and skis, so we get off when they get off, and get on the train they get on, and then from there, the train stops and doesnt go any further, so we get off and get on some other random train. by the time we got off that train we were actually at the bottom of the mountain we were going to go up. so we just follow everybody else and get on the tram. that takes us to the very top of the mountain! so we're up there and we're lookign at a map, and theres no beginner slopes, and we skipped the bunny slope and she had been snowboarding once before in her life, and i had never been, so of course we decide that we might as well just go for it cuz we're int he swiss alps, and we go down the intermediate slope.
it was hysterical. i mean, im not gonna lie, at parts i laid there on the ground in pain and said, "im laughing because I dont want to cry" - and i did get pretty frustrated at points. but it was quite the experience. i only face-planted once. and was going pretty fast, so my legs and board kept going and i managed to smack my arm with the board....kim face-planted like 4 times. i became a pro at flying through the air and then summer-saulting down it. lol kim nearly peed her pants. no for real. she almost did. apparently i looked that funny. lol. so we only got to do two runs. cuz she would get control and go down real slow, and i really had no clue what i was doing and would fly past her, freak myself out adn fall...shed pass me while i tended to my wounds lol. jk. kinda. lol. and then we'd repeat. ok. so best story. kim is going down all nice and slow and in control in front of me, and sometimes she would have to sit and wait for a long time for me to get the courage to come down more cuz i hurt myself. lol. so shes in front of me, and i keep veering off towards the right, and no matter what i do, my board just wants me to go off the trail. so i start picking up speed and i end up off the trail and flying off this 3 or 4 foot ledge onto another trail! i actually landed fine, but kept going and was about to end up in an area that i didnt want to be, so i made myself fall. was all disoriented, sat up, and there is a couple. sitting there having a picnic cuz they hiked there. and they're like staring at me, apparently a girl flying and screaming and coming from nowhere is startling. and im liek, first time, and the guys like, tiring? and im like yea. and shes like maybe skiing is easier? and im like, i dont know. and i get up and go some more and fall again, and shes like...maybe its not good snow, and im like i dont know. and i kept going. but it was so random and it felt like somethign that would belong in a movie. lol. but i got back onto the trail that kim was on cuz ours connected and it was a huge fiasco, cuz she was heading back up the mountain looking for me, and i was down further than she was...oh brother...lol.
so anyway, by 4 we were starving and decided we should probably eat so we had the biggest meal ever and it was divine. i had hamburgers. no bread. just the hamburger in some exquisite sauce. with fries. a salad with real dressing! a roll and a piece of chocolate cake. delicious.
so then we went back to find out that all of our friends ended up skydiving! craziness. so we shared our stories with them. then...what did we do....we sat while they ate dinner and we bought ben and jerrys cuz i was upset that they canceled night sledding for saturday night without telling us. and then we went to bed. and the next morning we got up and went to go hiking. now at this point, i could hardly move, so im like. i'll go for a little bit. well, 3 hours later im at the top of a 3,918 foot mountain! it was soooo cool though. there is no way i can describe the view or what climbing up this mountain was like. oh, but it was cool, we were walking by this old log cabin looking thing and there was a freshwater spring there, so we got some really good switzerland water. so we're fooling aroudn at the top of this ridiculous mountain by this house that we had seen from the bottom and had joked about hiking to...and how we could never do that. and then we did. oh, at one point, we were sitting on a log taking a break before we got to the top and we were at the same height as some paragliders. it was pretty sweet. and it was so quiet. like there was not a sound...and it was just mountains. everywhere you looked. and trees and a tiny little town called interlaken in the valley in between two lakes. bella.
so we're at the top going down a slide....switzerland is realyl really random. and then we realize that its 1:45 and that the chocolate place we wanted to get to closes at4 and isnt open on sunday, so we have an hour and 15 mintues to make it down the mountain if we want time to wlak there and buy stuff. so we're going,and kim has her stop watch going. and traci, laura, and stef (the only other 3 out of the 10 that made it to the top with us) are going pretty fast, but kim and i want to see if we can make it down the mountain in an hour, so for the second half we sprinted down a mountain. like we had been jogging before, but we started full out running down the mountain. yea. it was ridiculous. but we did it. 52 minutes and 36 seconds only half full-out running and some stops to wait for our friends when we first started. yea, kimand i are dumb with our half-baked ideas. we got our chocolate though and it was heaven.
but yea, so saturday night we went out to eat...had some burgers and steaks and spare ribs and stuff, and then we went to the bar/discoteca that was in the basement of our hostel (more random stuff). it was fun. we went to bed and the next day kim and i rented a fun car...its like a smart car, but without the doors. and we drove to go see a glacier. it was fun and pretty sweet. just a little cold. after that, we ate...at mcdonalds lol. and bought some postcards and then played pingpong at the hostel until it was time to go. where we watched 4 more manly movies. oh and i bought the coolest hat ever. a beanie..winter hat. with the swiss flag on it. love it!
it was just amazing and its just indescribable. so thats all ive got for you. however, my family is coming! aunt sharon and uncle bob are supposed to get here with rachel and erica today...im gonna visit them in fiesole. and then monday the rest of the fam is coming! cant wait. and i found out today tha tlindsay and jess are coming easter weekend, friday to tuesday, so thats really cool too! so i probably wont blog for a while cuz i'll be busy on my break with the fam. but i will most definitely have a lot to write about after.
miss you all.
ciao!
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