Swiss Alps

Hi everyone.

This blog will probably be a little short as it is late at night here in Switzerland and I may have to pee. Our lives have drastically changed since our last blog post. Instead of burning a hole in our sweatpants, we are climbing mountains! Real, actual mountains. Barbie and Gregg had bought us an all day train pass for today, and we were able to tour around the country a bit, which, by comparison, is about the size of New Brunswick with about half the fun things to do. I kid. I wasn't sure what we were going to do today, as I was mostly, if not all asleep when the planning was happening last night. I literally had no idea where we were going when I got on the train, but choose to keep it like that.

We had taken a beautiful train ride through the mountains to arrive at this fantastic little village that looked like a post card. (In fact it was a post card, and I bought 3) We then took a gondola for about half an hour before we could even say we were close to the top of this particular mountain. After a few glasses of wine last night, Dave had agreed to ziplining down this mountain, despite his increasing fear of heights. Although he tried to put it off when we were up there, we were determined (also we had pre-bought our tickets). It was about an 800 meter drop, however it looked much steeper when staring down a mountain that was 7100 feet above sea level. It was a great experience and Dave managed to only slightly wet his pants. At the bottom of the zip-line there is a rewarding bar where we enjoyed a couple of beers. After sitting down we quickly realized how warm we were. We could actually still see our breath but the sun's rays were so warm they we ended up stripping down to our last layers. I wore a tank top that had not seen the light of day since our 30 degree weather in Germany. After heading down the rest of the mountain it was winter again, and we were forced to put back on our borrowed winter coats from Barbie and Gregg.

Anyway, so far Switzerland has been (obviously) awesome and tomorrow we are being taken into Zurich, which is the closest town to where we are staying, at about 20 minutes by train. We will have more to update I'm sure and will keep you all posted.

Love Sarah