Thursday, June 23, 2011

"I hope the people we're strapped to tomorrow are fun."

...context is a great thing.


Day one of Interlaken was covered in the last post.  Aka best day number 2.


The next day, we decided we want to go on a hike.  We took a train to Lauterbrunnenandasdai'e and took a cable car up to the top of a mountain.  We walked along for a few hours, and got to the next cable car stop.  Apparently, if you buy a round trip ticket, you can only use the car you came up in.  GAWDAHMAHT.  We didn't want to spend another 20, so we said frack it, let's walk.


Mistake.


We essentially scaled down a mountain.  We calculated the meters we decended: 900.  ABSURD.  We were attacked and swarmed by flies, and Alice slipped/fell twice.  Eurgh.  But we did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our last day in Interlaken was dubbed "scary day."  We started off by going paragliding.


Figure 8.1 - Pre-flight.  Zero hour, 9am.  
We were actually flying! Look at this super grainy, blurry photo of a photo!!


Figure 8.2 - Not photoshopped, promise.
That night was the beach party.  We attended, were getting super bored and were about to leave when we ran into ANDREW JONES.  What?!?!?  It was actually the craziest thing that's ever happened.  He just stumbled into the bar with a bag of bread, nutella, and cheese.  Classic.  We didn't take a photo, but here's one we "found" on the internet.

Figure 8.3:  Lol
Crazy.  That pretty much sums up our Swiss adventures.  Balmer's hostel: you ROCK.
Trip Revelations:
1.  Flies.  Are.  Everywhere.  We hate flies.
2. Alice finds great shoes.
Figure 8.4: Love the face.
3. Outfits don't just happen in Madrid.
Figure 8.5: Identity protected.
4. Explanations sometimes don't...explain.  The picture below happened, and all we were told was "You know William Tell?  With the apple and the arrow?  They're reinacting it."


Figure 8.6:  Yeah sure, makes sense.  Also, look at the determination in that guy's face.
5. Fahrt.  Hilarious word everywhere in Switzerland.  


Figure 8.7:  Ein fahrt?  Who fahrted??

Figure 8.8:  It was him.

1 comment:

  1. Fabulous posts! Glad you are having such varied and fun (and one not so fun) experiences. Have a wonderful time in with the Romans and the Greeks.

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