What was meant to be zero nights in interlaken, Switzerland turned into two which turned into four which turned into five eventually working it's way up to 11 days in one of the most beautiful places in the world. We got here on the fourth of July with intentions of findin fellow Americans to celebrate with. Ha were we in for a surprise. We checked in at the infamous hostel known as balmers herberge and straight away the owner of the bar told us to hurry and drop our stuff off and come back for the big 4th of July party. Deal. But we weren't staying in the actual hostel, we were stayin in the tent village. It's literally just that, and about a 12 minute walk down the road from the hostel. So we get to the tent village 'tv' and our tent was Bern ( each tent was the name of a city). These tents have a wood floor so they are elevated off the ground a bit and are box shaped. Our tent had three bunk beds in it. Straight away sam and I laughed like crazy, like how was this gonna be? Met two of our roommates, luke and Ted- two guys euro tripping around from Canada. Little did we know that over the next week the only time we wouldn't be laughin was, well, never.
These two guys became some of our best friends, I don't even know how to explain them. I have never met two more happy/easy goin, hilarious, out of this world, completely different from one another type of people. I also blame them for our severe liver failure. Oh and how could I forget, one of our other roomies was a 17 year old American whose parents made him go on a euro trip for the summer. This kid was some sort of different, like the plague, he never went away! He honestly meant well, but like I said before, the best way to explain him is some sort of different.
So the first night we went down to balmers and partied for the 4th at the metro bar. It was this night we also met angie and christine, two sisters from michigan who were on a 6 week euro trip and on week 3 stopped in interlaken and decided to stay for the whole summer and work. We saw some guy dancing around with his shirt tucked in and it just didn't look good so we dared sam to go untuck it. Not wanting to be outdone, she did and he thought she wanted to dance so he whipped his shirt off and tried to start dancing with her! Ha didn't turn out in his favor to say the least. Ted and Luke had been in interlaken for a couple days already and had been celebrating all day long. At one point we look over and Ted was passed out on luke's shoulder, classic Ted. So as Luke later rephrased it, he arranged for sam and I to walk Ted home. We were meant to go back to the bar after but were too tired to make the journey back into town.
The next morning we were up by 8am, for those of you who have been camping, tents don't allow you to sleep in! Sam and I went into town and booked rafting, canyoning and bungee jumpin excursions. This day we went white water rafting, it was both our first times and we went thru grade 3 and 4 rapids. So much fun except for the old man behind me. I'm not sure what made him think that everytime he was about to fall out of the raft, he should grab onto the small human in front of him but I guess for some reason that comforted him. Yes good sir, you are welcome. I thoroughly enjoyed keeping both u, myself and the young boy in front of me alive! Rafting was such an adrenaline rush tho, you don't have time to get scared it's either paddle or fall out and hope you don't smash into a rock!
After rafting sam, myself and 'the guys' (Ted and Luke) went to Neuhaus- a gorgeous lake and hangout spot where we played football and almost got attacked by a giant swan. We missed the last bus home so got to enjoy a two hour walk back to tv. We made it interesting tho, got acquainted with nature, did handstands in a hayfield, took all the wrong turns but eventually made it back. That night we were all pretty tired so we called it a night early.
Next morning sam and I went canyoning. How to describe canyoning? Well we drove up the mountains and finally we stop and the guides tell us to get out and have a look at the view. So we do and what we are lookin over is a 50 meter vertical cliff. Then they ask, 'k whose going first?' my reaction, ' ya fuck that. No way in gods good name am I goin down that!' but sure enough we started our way into the canyon repelling down the 50m vertical cliff. So basically you make your way thru this canyon doin whatever it takes... At one point that grabbed our feet and swung us around head first down a rock into a small pool of water. We had to zipline a couple times, cliff jump, do a baggage drop where a person on each side of u grabs u and chucks u down the side of a rock, there were rock slides. But I think the scariest one was when we had to stand on top of a rock and right below and about 3 meters in front was an area that if u fell into it, good luck gettin out. So u literally had to throw yourself against another vertical like cliff just right and u would slide along it somehow and miss the pit and land into another pool of water. It was so intense, I recommend if u ever get the chance DO IT!
That afternoon sam and I headed up to the stockhorn bungee. Those of you who heard about my experience bungee in new Zealand know that it was on my 21st bday, I was so scared I was crying and they eventually had to push me off. Well this bungee was the same height although the scenery was a bit different. Rather then jumping in between two cliffs, we jumped over a gorgeous lake up in the alps- most incredible scenery ever. My new strategy this time? To stare into the trash can until it was my time to jump and then close my eyes walking up to the platform... Then the countdown- 5-4-3-2-1- bungee! And I did it!!! Soo proud of myself =)
That night was the ritual Wednesday night beach party at balmers.It was the night we decided to whip out the bottle of absinthe we had purchased in Amsterdam- after all we deserved it right? We went down to the good old metro bar with Ted and Luke and danced the night away. And as one might not be surprised, Luke passed out on teds shoulder haha, typical Luke. It was pretty late as it was so Ted and I walked Luke home and put him to bed. Sam stayed with ang at the bar and it was this night when some guy wAs talkin to sam and then later he tried kissing her and told her that she had changed him. Really guys? Never use that pick up!
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