When we almost missed getting back on the trolley because we were looking for icecream!
Lake Zurich
Trolley around Zurich
After rafting, we were pretty tired. When we finished, the guides had cheese, bread, and beer waiting for us, so we hung out with them for awhile. Then we showered and went into town and ate a place called Cafe de Paris. It was excellent. We aren't sure if what we had was a typical Swiss dinner, but it was roast beef, tartar sauce, and the salad that seems to come with every meal there; it was also excellent. For desert, we had this thing called berry waffl'n (we're on deserts hard right now, but are about to quit because we don't want to come back from Europe beastly). After dinner, we stopped by the bonfire and the Guinness tent, but we were so exhausted we just went to bed. We had met like 10 guys earlier that went to law school in the US that said to try the club across the street, but it just wasn't in us. We got back to the room and there is this backpacker who smelled worse than any human being ever. He wanted to chat for hours (we think because he was backpacking alone and lonely), but we also didn't feel like doing that, so we just tried to pretend we were asleep. By this point, we had decided it was time to get away from our grotsky roommates and go to Zurich the next morning.
The next morning we grabbed pastries for breakfast from our favorite little spot down the street and took the bus to this hostel out in the middle of no where to sea kayak. They only had one though, so then we took another bus to the center of town where I thought the lake was (but wasn't), so at this point we just decided to get on the train. We took about a 5 hour train ride to Zurich and then hopped on the trolley that took us on a guided tour around the city. We figured this was our best bet since we didn't have a ton of time to spend there. We learned a few interesting facts on the tour; like, Zurich is where FIFA is headquartered, only 6% of people actually own homes in Zurich (the rest rent), it generates a fifth of all of Switzerland's money, and the stock exchange is world famous there. One of the guys we met on the trolly was in Switzerland for business and had graduated from UVA. He looked to be about our age and we were semi-jealous of his sweet job. They invited us to join them on the boat tour, but we were afraid of missing the 8:40 back to Innsbruck, so we just headed back to the station. We ate dinner at another little pizzeria. We really could write a book on all of the pizza we have eaten in Europe. Then we took the 5 hour train ride back to Innsbruck. We got in at 2 am, took a taxi back to our place, and slept. It was SO nice to finally be in our own room again. Innsbruck is starting to feel like home.
Today, we woke up at like 10 am. That was also nice since we have been trying to get up at 8 am to see stuff everyday or make it to class. We then traversed the city and tried to figure out the bus system to make it to Lake Lan. It's pretty confusing when you don't normally take buses on a day to day basis. When we finally made it to the lake, we were so happy we went. There were tons of people out there and we layed out on the dock. We also ate popsicles and went swimming. We've decide we will take all our new friends back there when they return from their weekend vacations.
As one of the people we've met along the way said, "You're on holiday, you can do whatever you want" and that is exactly how we feel.
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