Monday, February 1, 2010

Day 14 and Day 15... Interlaken Switzerland

Ok I'm going to write both days on here...

So we left about 8:30 in the morning to catch a 9:00 train to Munich. We bought a bayern pass which costs 28 euros for 5 five people. We only had 4 so we each paid 7 euros to get to Lindau. Lindau is at the edge of the border to Switzerland. When we were in Munich we almost left on the wrong train. Our first train switched tracks so we walked to the other track. Well this train was going to spilt so we got on the wrong side. We asked some people if this was the train to Lindau they said yes, thankfully Andrew asked the conductor and he said no we need to go down the train. This was 2 minutes before the train was going to take off. So we packed and threw all of our stuff in our bags and RAN down to the end of the train. It was so CLOSE. Then when we sat down a man came to Andrew and Was saying Danka! Danka! Apparently he was on the wrong train as well and he followed us down. So to Lindau we went and then got to Switzerland. We arrived around 8 o' clock at night. It was pretty dark so we went to grocery store to buy dinner. I bought Swiss creamy cheese and bagel chips to dip it in. I wasn't very hungry and that was a perfect snack. We went to the Balmer's Inn. There were a lot of students from Barcelona there studying and they were LOUD! I think we all woke up from the loud talking. But I think we all got enough sleep. Since we arrived at 8 and it was dark we woke up and we were Surrounded by Mountains.

When we all came out our rooms we decided to go to a different Hostile and stay there. We went to Funny Farm Hostile. It was really nice. And we all got a balcony in our rooms. At the bottom I will post pictures of Nicole's and I's room. So Beautiful. Once we got our room we set our stuff down and walked around Interlaken. We all said we wanted Swiss Cheese Fondue. But everything there was so expensive! Andrew and Tanner shared a fondue and Nicole and I had a taste. It was really good. Nicole didn't like it but I enjoyed it. I'm glad I didn't get a whole thing though, I wouldn't be able to eat the entire thing. Then Andrew really wanted Swiss chocolate so we walked into West Interlaken which was more of the city. It was a tiny little town but so adorable. Plus with those mountains surrounding it. WOW. We walked around the town and found this really cool bridge over a little river. We took lots of pictures and videos. Some of the Swiss were watching us and laughing at us because we were taking jumping pictures. I got some nice pictures of me with the mountains in the back. I'm going to try and get them up on facebook as soon as possible. I love this little town. If I had lots of money I would come back here and do all of the cool things they offer to do. We didn't get to go up the mountains because it would have cost us 160 euros to get to the top. We had so much fun. Then after walking around for a while we went for dinner in a Thai resturant. It was SO good. We were laughing that we were eating Thai food in Switzerland but it was so yummy. Then we went back to our hostile ate chocolate and did more homework. Then we all went to Bed for the Long Traveling Day we will have tomorrow.




TOMORROW'S PLANS:
-Get back to Regensburg


Liebe,
Courtney

Here is the view from Nicole's and I's Room






Here are our Cool Jumping Pictures:



4 comments:

  1. Court,
    SO BEAUTIFUL. I cannot wait to see more pictures on facebook!
    And, Heidi and I are proud that you actually got off the ground in the jumping pictures.
    Thinking of you often, and love you even more,
    Karen

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  2. That is a very Asian looking picture of you, I am very proud Miss Baker ;) Enjoying reading about you as always :)

    B-rizzle Slice

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  3. Sweet view from your room... boo ya! Wish I could have been there with you all ;-(

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  4. Such Beautiful Photos! You can't do wrong with the Swiss Alps in the backdrop. Yummy cheese fondue Courtney? oh yeah...
    Great height on your jumps! I gotta work on that! :) Auntie di

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