Adventures in Interlaken

I promised I'd share some details of the fun I had in Switzerland so here it is:

The girls I was traveling with wanted to shop so we went to "town" and strolled the streets and took in the beautiful scenes and cute village.  We went up to the top of a hotel where there is a restaurant with incredible panoramic views.  As we sat down for drinks, my thumb started gushing again so a guide from the trip I was on (bus2alps) took me to a pharmacy to see a doctor and get help (see Old Habits Die Hard).  After the cheapest visit to a doctor in the history of doctor visits, we went to see one of the lakes Interlaken is situated between.  The water was BRIGHT blue glacier water.  I tried to take the opportunity to practice some of the techniques we learned in photography class... mostly a fail.

Later, we went to a chocolate show at a local chocolate shop where they show you how chocolate is made and then give you lots of delicious truffles and such.  I swear spending the semester in Switzerland would be way more dangerous for my weight than being in Italy.  After a yummy Thai dinner, I passed out in bed at 9:30 PM.  I think that's a record.

The next day I woke up early to ski the alps! I made a friend who ended up being a great ski partner for me.  It was incredibly beautiful and the trails went on forever.  Of course, vacationing like a true Schlussel, waking up at 6:30am and skiing all day wasn't a complete day without night sledding and a Swiss fondue dinner.  The sledding was fun but the girls in front of us, arguably the most annoying, immature, and dumb college students studying abroad this semester, detracted from the experience of enjoying the eerie, peaceful, and terrifying feeling of sledding down the mountains in the dark.

On our last day, my friends wanted to shop again so I went off on my own and met some awesome Indian travelers and we tried to figure out the bus system together to get to the other lake.  I ended up running out of time and not making it there since they didn't come frequently enough and I had to get back to catch our bus to Rome but the adventure was still fun.

5 movies later, we got back to Rome.  Home sweet home.