12/2/2009
basel is pretty money. small town, even though its the third largest in swizzy. found a cool river/bridge situation. B.E.A.-utiful. also found some old castle (typical) that we completely DOMINATED...and by this i mean we found a book of "wishes" sitting in the entryway of it, and decided to add some wish of our own to it (this was okay, since that's what it was there for). jess wrote, because of my influence, "I wish i was a big boy. love jessica." and i wrote, "i wish i was a little bit taller, i wish i was a baller." hopefully both come true!
ok so the thing about switzerland is that its insano expensive. I though we were good to go when we exhanged money, because the swiss franc is worth the same as a dollar. HOWEVER, everything was like 8x as expensive here. we couldnt find a normal meal for under 20 francs, so we grabbed some beers and went to mcdonalds. i hate to admit this, but it really happened. WE WENT TO MCDONALDS. and still, 2 cheeseburgers and a happy meal = 12 francs. stupid. whatever, this country is still awesome. freaking switzerland. i love it.
today we got up super duper early and grabbed a train to luzern and then interlacken. now we are heading back to basel for the night. let me tell you that the swiss alps are incredible. its like being in the LORD OF THE RINGS. some of the most amazing mountains ive ever seen. in some places there are little waterfalls coming off of the mountains, as well. Just little valleys, and vast cliffs cover in snow, everywhere, nonstop! small little villages with a church in the middle, with the steepest steeple that you could ever imagine, overlooking a lake that is slate blue. this crap was everywhere. those swiss people don't deserve this! no just kidding, I guess i'll allow them to have it.
both towns were pretty cool, in their own way. luzern was super old and medieval. definitely picturesque. my fav city so far on this trip. almost battled a swan there, too. there are swans everywhere on the lake here. i fed some. they liked me. cool wooden bridges crossed the river there, leading to an awesome old town waterfront of traditional swiss building filled with cafes and restaurants. plus swans. swans swans swans. of course we had a little gluhwein here. can't stop! and had some bread for lunch cause we are cheap/swiss is retarded with prices. had to leave in 1.5 hrs to head to interlacken. i had to peee so bad, and the stupid train bathrooms were locked. this is because the toilets open up to the train tracks, and if we peed and pooped there, everying would fall onto the station, which i think would be pretty funny. but, i still had to pee, so i ran to the station bathroom where it cost 2 FRANCS to pee...like 2 dollars!!!! i didnt even have 2 francs on me, so i ran back to the train, and found an awesome spot to take care of my business. right between two cars....the transition space between both of them. peed all over that transition space. the train deserved it.
and interlacken was pretty amazing as well. the city was kinda like south lake tahoe but the mountains around them were completely amazing and twice as deluxe. and the lake there is just stupid. how can anyone say God is not real. no accident caused such a beauty and perfection. sorry if you don't agree.
really wanna go snowboarding here but it too hard. we only have a couple hrs here. sucks. instead of boarding, i settled for a beer and sandwich (the size of a cookie...) in the local pub. jess and i continued to sarcastically make fun of eachother here...typical.
now we are back on the train..each swiss chocolate and feeling pretty sick from it. today's trip was pretty sweet. we saw a large chunk of switzerland (which isn't difficult because the country is the size of rhode island)...and what the heck is rhode island anyways...so now one more night in basel spending millions of dollars for one meal, and then heading to paris tomorrow morning..crazy traveling right now! we are stopped in a city called bern right now. i think its the swiss capital. we are continuing to eat swiss chocolate and get fat...people watching. oh look..the swiss army soldiers are getting on the train right now. i actually think its the entire army that just joined us. all 50 of them. and they have their guns, too. they are so tough. actually they are probably just skwirt guns! we all know that swiss soldiers aren't tough...but they are good drinkers, that's for sure. i think each on of them is drinking a beer right now, and if not, they are drinking our of flasks. the funny thing is that they throw their guns on the luggage rack like they don't care. i could easily stand up and create a terrorist attack rigth now, no problem. but , as i said before, skwirt guns..prob not real...
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