Sunday, June 1, 2008

Interlaken, Switzerland

Again we woke up to a rainy morning, but this time it looked like it was going to clear up soon.  Rj and I would have liked to stay longer in Gimmerwald, but we had no idea of where were going to stay for the next few days.  So we decided to take the tram down to Interlaken to figure out at least the weekend.  Interlaken was really sunny out, so we decided to go for a hike before our fun planning.  The girl at the receptions desk recommend a shorter hike behind the hostel.  She also told us about some places to go swimming and a place where we could go hang out by the lake.  The hike was nice and had good views of the town and the mountains.  We found a campsite and there were pits that looked like they had been used before.  We also saw another Chamois, but this time it was a little farther away.  We got pictures, so I was excited.  As we hiked around, we looked for a sign that  would put us in the right direction to the water.  However, we ended up making a big circle around this hill.  Still we had no idea of where this water was or how to get to it.  So we walked down on one side of the hill and slowly found our way back to the hostel.  On our way back we saw five hawks, which was awsome.  They had a little white on the bottom of them and when the sun hit the top it looked golden.  Were not quiet sure if they were hawks, but they were big and had a big wing span.  When we got back to our place, we decided to try to figure out what beaches we wanted to go to and find out a little bit about the area.  After that fun stuff, we were going to go cook something to eat at the campsite.  We invited Kalib and Kate and Dennis and Kalib invited two other people.  So all of us went up to cook some food.  There was three fire pits and so we cooked on one and sat around another fire.  It was awsome being up there !  It was so nice to be able to grill food and hang out with other people in a beautiful area.  Then tomorrow we are off to Nice, France.  

1 comment:

luv2hikejulie said...

Wow, I can't believe I didn't read this and the last post. Not sure how it happened. Anyway Switzerland sounds really beautiful.