After we got them home and let them take a little nap we were off to catch a train again. It was a little over 2 hours to Interlaken (with a 4 minute change in Lucerne). Once we got there and checked into THE hostel in Switzerland we thought we would take a walk to find some food. Our travel book told us there was a good mexican restaurant...you read that right MEXICAN. So, it wasn't quite Jose Peppers (by the way - I'm eating there everyday when I come back to Kansas. I will have a monterey chicken burrito and a glass of queso to drink - and a margarita for dessert!) but the margaritas were alcohol-y and the cheese was hot!
The next morning we got up and headed up the mountain. Originally we were going to go to the 'top of Europe' but it was going to cost like $80 so we decided to head to Murren. Murren is a quaint little town on the mountain. To get there we had to take about 3 different trains - each getting progressively smaller and more rickety - and at one point we even took a cable car.
For lunch we stopped by the grocery store and picked up stuff to make sandwiches and some fruit. One very nice thing about Switzerland is that you can all the water from the fountains (and there are lots of fountains). Lin was VERY skeptical of drinking the water from the fountains but finally in Interlaken we got her to fill her water bottle from one. I had to document the momentous event wit some pictures.
After lunch we walked down the mountain a little bit to a very small town that is apparently in a highly avalanched area - which is why the population never grew.Here are some more views from our trip to Murren and surrounding areas.
That evening we decided we wanted to stay in so we spent it in the hostel. We went and had a dinner of fried in the courtyard of the hostel (surrounded by recent college grads hitting on each other) and then decided to play some games. While we were playing Rummikub an obviously American guy go on and on about what he knew about Paris to a younger, more attractive female. He rattled of random fact after random fact about the Louvre and other sites that, later, on my train ride to Paris with my sister I read word for word out of a book - right down to the 'best and cheapest falafel stand in France'... DUDE, if you're going to try to pick up chicks that are WAAAAAY out of your league at least try to not recite your Paris book.The next morning we didn't have a whole lot of time but we thought we should at least see one of the lakes for which Interlaken gets its name. After a little bit of confusion we finally get to where we think we should go. We basically walk through a neighborhood until the road runs into the lake. The view was stunning! We looked around for a little bit, then it started to POUR down rain so we high-tailed it back to the bus stop (luckily it had a little awning to sit under) to wait for the bus.
We took the bus back to the train, RAN to grab some lunch, and caught the train back to Zurich for a couple hours before we were off on our next adventure!
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You guys are having way too much fun ! ! ! Good for you!
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