Day 23- Switzerland

Saturday, May 15 (Day 23)

We got to sleep in today (Still in Switzerland)!! Breakfast was at 8am and we went down all ready to go to the top of the mountain after breakfast. We got bad news though, there was bad weather and it wasn’t really worth it to go up the mountain for that amount of money.

So I decided not to go and hang back with Carli, Erica, and Lisa. We went into town and shopped around and I went to the post office to mail 5 postcards, which cost me 13 euro!! What an expensive post office!! Then we went to Trummelbach falls which is a bunch of waterfalls inside of a mountain. It was beautiful, but really cold and really wet. It was a 45ish minute walk and we played with the cows and sheep on our way there and way back. Once there, we took a lift to go up to the top of the mountain. It was a pretty steep lift and it had glass windows that allowed us to see everything that was going on to make this lift work. Kinda scary… looked like Splash Mountain in Disney!

After admiring the booming, rushing falls, we moseyed back to camp and had lunch at the café on at the camp sight. We ate with some Contiki workers there. For lunch, Carli and I split rossi and a pasta dish. Rossi is like hashbrowns with toppings like tomatoes, eggs, cheese, etc.

After lunch, we all went to take showers and get clean. The showers reminded me of dorm showers! And they were cold at first but then got reallyyyy nice. There showers also had a button that you had to keep pressing to keep the water going. Only this time, it lasted for two or three minutes.

After getting dressed, we went to dinner which was American hamburgers and fries (and really weren’t that good). After dinner, we walked to the camp bar and bought a beer to bring back to the lounge. Everyone was watching tv and we sat in there for a while just hanging out.

Then it was time to go out! We went to the camp bar and from there went to a disco in town. We were allowed to bring our drinks in which we all thought was pretty cool.

That night was… a night full of fun! We all danced and were bought drinks by guys. An older man, claiming to be 44, wanted to buy me a drink and dance, but I thought that was weird and said no. He bought me a drink anyways but I walked away from him after that.

We all stayed out quite late, I think we made it back to our room around 2:30 or 3am. But it was a fun night!