Arrival
We arrived in disappointed but had a chance to speak my sentence of German when we first arrived cos the guy in the hostel at the time did not speak good English. The views in
First night had to go and explore so we took a walk. The river that runs through
While admiring the surroundings we found a poor cow that managed to get itself stuck in a really awkward position, it brings a whole new meaning to having fresh milk for breakfast. We sat down and I had a nice cup of hot choc with the beautiful view of the mountains – it was pretty cold so this worked really well.
Later that night we went to an open air movie called “Alles auf Zucker” – didn’t understand much so headed back to the hostel before it ended.
Today we took a train to the little town of
Just down from the waterfall was a little graveyard – yes I know that it might seem a bit morbid but I took a photo. I thought it was pretty cool how the graves were basically little flower gardens opposed to stone slabs where any flowers left there would just die. My favourite one had a little garden gnome in it, again it sounds weird that I had a favourite grave but just understand
where it all comes from.
After enjoying Staubbach falls we took a nice casual walk to the Trummelbach falls which is fed by the glacier up by
We also saw lots of cows during our walk – they really are cute animals and they also seem to be a kind of symbol of
ones we saw were during one of our train rides so couldn’t take a pic.
Arriving at Trummelbach falls we discovered that is consists of something like 7 branches (don’t quote me on that). Most of these falls have kinda formed these caves so its like they are falling through the earth. It is really cool the way the rock has been carved away – it kinda made we wish I had studied Geology to 3rd year so I could better understand it all. Yes I know I am a nerd. ;)
Walked back to Lauterbrunnen to catch our train and discovered a house with a grass roof. Byron reckons it makes for good insulation, I reckon that it just checks cool. We sat down for a drink before leaving and once again I had a hot choc – for some reason a mug of hot choc in
Day 2
Train ride to the highest train station in
thick and beautiful. We arrived and started by heading through the ice palace – this was pretty cool we saw penguins kissing and Byron even got to meet his hero, Mighty Mouse.
We then headed out to a viewing platform
where Byron had his first experience of playing in snow. He built a “snowman” and I proceeded to demolish it – it looked more like the gherkin in
The views were spectacular even though when we woke up that morning we were considering changing our plans cos the mountains still seemed very misted up and
miserable. Glad we followed through with plan A cos even though it was cloudy,
After taking some posed pics with us and the beautiful snowy mountains I stood up only to discover that sitting on snow makes your bum wet – damn. Luckily the sun was out and it was actually very hot up there so the wet patch dried pretty quickly.
Next stop was all the activities available up on the mountain. The one I was really looking forward to was the dog sled ride. Unfortunately it was closed cos it was too hot which made the snow too soft or something. The dogs could injure themselves around the corners.
We did however manage to get a chance to do some bum boarding. First time round everything went smoothly, managed to slide down the slope with out making a complete arse of myself. Unfortunately this was not the case for time number 2. As you
may pick out from the pics I decided to do a somersault at the end of my trip. Even though this was not all that graceful I am sure it was the best somersault possible under those conditions.
I would also like to point out that Byron also managed to freak out a little in his second go. Look at that face. Byron and I both managed to get quite sunburnt but it was bearable.
On our journey back to
Departure
Last sight
5 comments:
I put all of our bum-boarding photos onto my blog
http://byrona.blogspot.com/
Hey Sis,
Looks like you've been having a gr8 time!
Hi Heather, looks like you had has much fun up the mountain as I did last year. It is strange seeing someone I know going places I have been. Looks like you had lots of fun.
I'm 1000 times jealous
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