I forgot to mention that wednesday night the guys got upgraded to paris, a four person private tent- one that they got all to themselves so sam and i moved in bc we didnt know our new roomies and didnt want to make them mad comin in late. So now it's Thursday morning and luke somehow made his way out into one of the hammocks during the night. In the morning when he woke up he told ang to go wake up the den, bc we were now dubbed the 'lions den.' the four of us decide to head back to Neuhaus to enjoy yet another beautiful sunny day at the lake. We rented a paddle boat and the guys paddled while sam and I lounged and sunbathed- how perfect. Ang later met up with us and we swam for a bit. Ang has been a swimmer all her life so she went for an actual exercise swim, like where you go a distance and dont just splash around. When she finally returned the guys welcomed her back by clapping her in- that's so Luke and Ted!
That night the five of us (ang, sam, me, luke and ted) had a lions den party where we introduced the Guys to new drinking games such as pyramids and I have. That night there was a raging thunderstorm, thought the den was gonna blow away! Everytime someone would go to the bathroom or to grab another drink, if they didn't come back straight away Luke would run outside to look for his 'best Fran!' and it was a chilly night so each time he came back with blankets from the spare blanket pile until he managed to accumulate both piles of blankets into our tent! Haha such a turkey!
Friday morning we lounged around tv all morning and met one of the new couples who moved into Bern, a Canadian couple. We all (by now there is a group of 8 of us) went to neuhaus again-surprise surprise. On the bus ride home some elderly lady looks at Luke so he responds 'sup?' imagine the look on her face...
We got back to tv and played some ping pong and lounged in the hot tub. That night at tv they had extreme sport videos playing so all our guide friends we had met came for that. The party then moved to Bern, but as u can imagine 15 people in one tent doesn't work out too well so we all went down to metro bar. Rocked out there for the rest of the night but apparently the guys hadn't booked another night at tv, so Luke took my bed, I shared with sam and Ted snoozed in the main tent.
That night the five of us (ang, sam, me, luke and ted) had a lions den party where we introduced the Guys to new drinking games such as pyramids and I have. That night there was a raging thunderstorm, thought the den was gonna blow away! Everytime someone would go to the bathroom or to grab another drink, if they didn't come back straight away Luke would run outside to look for his 'best Fran!' and it was a chilly night so each time he came back with blankets from the spare blanket pile until he managed to accumulate both piles of blankets into our tent! Haha such a turkey!
Friday morning we lounged around tv all morning and met one of the new couples who moved into Bern, a Canadian couple. We all (by now there is a group of 8 of us) went to neuhaus again-surprise surprise. On the bus ride home some elderly lady looks at Luke so he responds 'sup?' imagine the look on her face...
We got back to tv and played some ping pong and lounged in the hot tub. That night at tv they had extreme sport videos playing so all our guide friends we had met came for that. The party then moved to Bern, but as u can imagine 15 people in one tent doesn't work out too well so we all went down to metro bar. Rocked out there for the rest of the night but apparently the guys hadn't booked another night at tv, so Luke took my bed, I shared with sam and Ted snoozed in the main tent.
Saturday was out of this world. We packed up our bags bc sam, ang and I were headed to Geneva for the lake parade festival and Luke and Ted were headed off to Avignon France but they had to transfer to a different train in Geneva, so we all traveled together. Sounds simple enough right? Nothin can ever turn out normal or simple with those guys. We still had half a bottle of absinthe so the guys decided they were goin to finish it on their way to france, after hearin all the previous stories about them this shouldnt surprise you. As were on the train some old lady walks by and steps on both Luke and teds feet on purpose bc they were wearing sandals. She then Starts talkin to Ted and says the most random things and then hits him on the nose, so Ted raises a fist at this old lady (out of instinct) but so hilarious haha! The. She goes away and eventually comes back with some little girl and makes Tex and Luke sing old macdonakd with them. She then starts counting in German and for every number she said she would tap teds nose. When she was finally done Ted taps her nose back and says 'ok' by this point I am laughin uncontrollably and she looks at me and says if I keep laughin I will pee myself. Thanks ma'am I think I have realized that by now. She the. Notices that there r three of us girls and only two guys so she taps the guy sitting behind us and says we can have him. She then looks at him and says 'ooh oops' bc it's a security guard. Haha she was something else! I had gotten quite a bit of that recorded on my camera so later on the train ride I was lookin to see how much storage I had left on my camera and somehow accidentally deleted ALL my pics! So devo!
We finally get to geneva, sad sad moment having to depart ways with the guys. Sam and I go to make a train reservation to Pamplona for Sunday to go to the running of the bulls- turns out you have to make reservations two weeks in advance for spain, so ha we had no idea what to do and decided to head back to interlaken on Sunday!
So how do I describe the lake parade festival? Nuts, absolutely insane! We met up with some friends ang had made at a festival earlier this summe in interlaken. They were so crazy, they bought us drinks all night! The festival consists of 14 semis that are all decked out that drive around the city from 4pm to midnight playing dance music and have people dancing on them. You party and dance all afternoon and like mardi GRAS, people are dressed in the wildest outfits! Then at midnight these semis stop at different parts throughout the city and you can go to any one you want and party the night away! It was absolutely insane, as luck would have it we ended up losing ang so at 4am sam and I made our way back to the train station, snoozed for a short bit and then caught the 5am train back to interlaken. This poor little town just couldnt get rid of us!
We finally get to geneva, sad sad moment having to depart ways with the guys. Sam and I go to make a train reservation to Pamplona for Sunday to go to the running of the bulls- turns out you have to make reservations two weeks in advance for spain, so ha we had no idea what to do and decided to head back to interlaken on Sunday!
So how do I describe the lake parade festival? Nuts, absolutely insane! We met up with some friends ang had made at a festival earlier this summe in interlaken. They were so crazy, they bought us drinks all night! The festival consists of 14 semis that are all decked out that drive around the city from 4pm to midnight playing dance music and have people dancing on them. You party and dance all afternoon and like mardi GRAS, people are dressed in the wildest outfits! Then at midnight these semis stop at different parts throughout the city and you can go to any one you want and party the night away! It was absolutely insane, as luck would have it we ended up losing ang so at 4am sam and I made our way back to the train station, snoozed for a short bit and then caught the 5am train back to interlaken. This poor little town just couldnt get rid of us!
Well back to interlaken we went. Didn't really surprise us nor our friends here. All day Sunday we spent hanging out with ang and some others at tv. We also made a train reservation to head to barco on thursday. That evening we finally decided to make ourselves useful and headed to balmers to do some laundry- laundry will never be defined so simply ever again. The last thing we had on our mind that night was consuming any sort of beverage that was not the h2o. So we headed down to balmers carrying our dirty clothes in kiwi grocery bags (kiwi is the grocery store in Norway). On the way we pass all the guides who were at happy hour at one of the bars. A lot of them are Aussies and new zealanders so naturally when they saw the kiwi bags it was quite funny...not to mention that they all thought we had finally left Saturday. But they invited us over to a bonfire after we finished laundry. While doing laundry sam and I got very frustrated bc we just had no idea what to do for the rest of our trip- so many options out there. I then realized it was happy hour at balmers so we each got a few drinks. Toby, one of the guides, came walkin by and told us to head to the next bar with all of them-they all have bikes, sam and I don't. So we rode on their handlebars- be advised, it's terribly difficult and uncomfortable! I'm not sure what the occasion was or if there even was one but all the guides were just raging that night. After that bar closed we headed back to the metro bar for the rest of the night. After a super late night out we didn't wake up till nearly noon. A bunch of the guides (10ish) live together in a house and told sam and I that we could crash there to save some pennies for the rest of the time we stayed in interlaken. So all afternoon we sorted thru our bags and I made the executive decision to mail half of my clothes home and to throw away my heels, the hairdryer and the hair straightner. Save my hair from fryin for the rest of the summer I guess! That night ang and I went to the local bar with the guides for a few drinks before headin to bed. Tuesday was workout day, by default. Ang sam myself and Dan (our Aussie friend who works at tv) all decided to go to the ropes course. We got lucky bc mustard (a guy who hangs out at tv often) was working and let us go for free! Woohoo and it would have coated 37francs! There were so many different courses, my favorite was one where you ziplined from tree to tree 20m above ground! But the really hard courses were some sort of a joke haha-I reckon bc I am terribly out of shape! Late that afternoon we had a wicked storm-like a hurricane! It tried to destroy the bar at tv but there were too many of us dedicated souls there holding it down and saving it from the storm. Later that night we cooked dinner for the house and chilled around. Wednesday was so rainy and gross out all day! When we were walking around town my sandal broke so I had to buy new ones =( it finally cleared up around 7pm and man was it gorgeous. It was crazy to vividly watch the storm roll away. You could see it bc it was halfway down the mountains and - just unable to be described. I would compare it to something like the northern lights. Wed night = beach party night. Sam and I snuck some beer into the bar to save some money lol. Eric balmer, the guy who owns balmers (no way!) was out partying too! Hes probably 75 is the reason interlaken is so crazy. 50ish years ago he opened up balmers and gave way for all the adventure sports here. He was at tv a lot so we got to know him, such a super guy. After beach party as luck would have it, it was pouring out again but hell walking home in the rain was quite fun! This brings me to exactly what I am doin right now- blogging on a Thursday morning. It's our last day in interlaken so we are off to say our toot-a-loos. Our train leaves tonight at 630 to barco. This will be our first overnight train- we get beds! We get into barco on Friday at about 1 in the afternoon. No idea where we are staying yet so until next time- whenever that may be- make sure you all update your bucket lists with a journey to interlaken. See how long this place can capture you for!
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