Since I have a ten page paper due on Wednesday, an eight page paper due Thursday, and a final on Friday, I decided to make this post pretty short. I'll just put up some photos and quickly explain what I did this weekend. (I forgot my camera on quite possibly the best weekend to bring my camera...so these phone pictures/pictures taken by friends will have to do).
This weekend, I went to Interlaken, Switzerland with a group of friends. I think this might have been my favorite travel weekend so far. The country is absolutely beautiful, the the weather is great, and the drivers don't accelerate toward you when you are crossing the street (unlike Italy).
After what was supposed to be a 7-hour bus ride, we arrived at Interlaken in 12 and a half hours (wrecks, etc)
We checked into out hostel at about 1AM and went to the only place to eat that was open that late: Hooters.
The next morning, me and my four friends woke up and headed out to do our activities
Getting ready to paraglide the Swiss Alps:
Paragliding the Swiss Alps. With Thomas, my tandem pilot. It was one of the best feelings in the world.
After we finished paragliding, we went back to the hostel for a little while, grabbed lunch, and then Mike, Chris, and I rented some bikes (later found to be the cheapest and worst bikes in the entire city), and took them on some trails up toward the main mountain in Switzerland.
We biked through two cities, through woods, over rivers, and through the very pits of hell itself.
Thank goodness for public fountains scattered throughout Europe.
Chris conquered a stump.
After about three hours of the most difficult bike-riding I had ever done, we finally reached a town called Lauterbrunnen, where we bought train tickets for our bikes and ourselves back to Interlaken. We later found out that people usually take a train up and then bike back down. We will remember that for next time.
After a well-deserved nights sleep, Cary, Chris, and I woke up at 7AM to go zorbing. T'was very fun.
And then I found a snake under a rock.
The next day, we all got back on the bus, and went back to Paderno (it took only 7 hours this time).
This morning (Monday), I went to my classes, and instead of going to my normal four-hour afternoon Entrepreneurial Strategy class, our teacher said "let's go to a winery." So off we went to the Italian countryside.
They had some delicious Prosecco waiting for us outside.
That was my weekend in a nutshell. I apologize for the lack of depth; so much more happened that I want to talk about (including meeting a Chinese man that changed my life and almost broke Chris' hand), but there is simply too much work that I need to do this week. Hopefully this coming weekend's post will be back to normal-ish length.
Ciao!
