Its been a while since I blogged, but I’ve just been having so much fun I haven’t really had time. Needless to say, two weekends ago I went to Interlaken, Switzerland.
Five of us (me, Dee, Chris, Aaron and Rob) all decided to go there so that we could ski/snowboard. We left on Thursday afternoon for Florence, to meet the bus that was taking us there through Bus2Alps. I cannot even describe how much fun I had.
We got into Balmer’s Hostel, the oldest hostel in Switzerland, at around 3am. By 7 we were awake and on our way to the slopes. We skied an area called the Jungfrau Region. The views from the top were so beautiful that we stopped every time and took pictures of the same mountains over and over again. I couldn’t get enough of the view.
I need to dedicate a paragraph about our roommates. If I had to pick one word to describe them it would be eclectic. I’m not even sure if one of them knew his own name. Another was the most overenthusiastic person I’ve met so far in my life. His stories went something like, “…and then we went up the stairs! IT WAS AWESOME, SO CRAZY, DUDE [everyone was a dude, even the girls] YOU NEED TO DO IT!” And the third was the ultimate surfer bro. I’m convinced there’s a chance he’s the author of broslikethissite.com.
In other news, it was nice to be on skis at least once this year, which I didn’t think was going to happen. Everyone in our group fell at least once when we were going down the mountain, so I considered it a successful day.
Guess what exotic food we ate in Switzerland? That’s right, you guessed it, calf’s head. Literally it was the face of a cow. It was pretty weird to say the least.
Saturday we went into Zurich, and it was so pretty. It isn’t anything like any of the cities I’ve seen so far, most of the buildings were no more than five or six stories. The buildings were so different even from the cities I’ve visited in Italy. The day was so relaxing, we just wandered and found random parks and buildings through out the city. There was this chocolate shop where we found chocolate hamburgers. Needless to say we were those 5 Americans who went into the chocolate shop and left with 12 chocolate hamburgers in all different colors. We almost ate them right outside the store, but we figured that would be a little excessive and made it about 3 blocks away before we tore the box open. Typical.
Sunday I think was by far the most epic day. Canyon Jumping. Enough said.
Enjoy the disclaimer we were given to read, and keep in mind that we were taken to the spot to jump buy three Swiss hippies, in an old 70s style van, and did donuts in the parking lot before we went up to jump and Aaron got a free shot at the top for being the first one of the day to jump half-naked.
I really don’t think I can properly describe it, so you can just watch these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o20FYX2tb04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK00-yC07VE
All I can say is it was probably the most fun I’ve had here so far, and I can’t wait to recklessly jump off a cliff again soon.
Location: Interlaken, Switzerland