Liz and I took the train from Innsbruck to Zurich to Interlaken yesterday. It was about six and a half hours, but well worth it. We love eating at the train stations and every one we've been to thus far has good food. I had some sort of crazy meat and cheese sandwich with olives and Liz had an assortment of cheese, olives, and meats on a stick. We also ate a pastry with a cream filling. From the station, we walked to the hostel (about 15 minutes) and got to see most of Interlaken Ost. It's a sleepy little town. Compared to Munich, it is a REALLY sleepy town. It's almost like coming to a resort after how crazy everyone is during the week, so we're really enjoying being here.
The Funnny Farm is a hippie retreat. You can find families here with small children and the children are naked and the parents wear hippie loose clothes. They don't seem like they shower much, but we're ok with that. We are staying a room with 8 beds and four of them are occupied by guys, which we've also decided we won't do again. Three of them are Asian tourists who take way too long in the bathroom and lotion up for extended periods of time. We really want our own room, but are doing our best to conserve money. However, the hotel itself is really cool. It has a nice lounge area, a great outdoor bar/restaurant, a nightclub and a pool (which is rare in Europe). There is the biggest dog we've ever seen walking around the hotel named Spietz and we love her.
Today, we walked to Interlaken West. This is the first real day we've been up at 8 AM hitting the pavement, so we feel pretty good about ourselves. There are little shops and places to eat, but everything here is ridiculously expensive. If you want any dish that has meat in it, it'll probably be about 40 dollars. We hear all of Switzerland is like that though. Now the US dollar is the same as the dollar here, so we can at least figure out how much we are actually spending. Liz bought Euro tennis shoes (since I told her to pack some and she refused, but now we figured out we will need them for the Lantern Hike on Tuesday). They are white and gold, so she'll be so stylish for our hike. Sorry everyone, ya'll won't be getting trinkets from Switz.
We are going rafting in a little while and I'm pretty sure we have to wear wet suits, so we'll be getting some interesting photos from this trip. Tomorrow is sea kayaking and from there we are considering going back to Zurich for a night or even just for lunch on our wait out Sunday. Most of our friends wont be coming back till Monday since they took trips to Spain and Germany for the World Cup. They were planning on running with the bulls and sleeping on park benches, so we vetoed that. But we are hoping to take our trip to Italy or Prague with them. Tuesday we are all re-uniting at the Hofgarten for live music.
Pictures to follow when we return to Innsbruck! And if my spelling is really bad, blame these crazy Euro keyboards.
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