swizzzzzzy

12/2/2009

hola from somehwere in the middle of "swizzy". we are on the train from innsbruck to zurich/basel, switzerland. crazy ammounts of snow outside. the alps are monsters. beautiful monsters for that matter. we left innsbruck a little early this afternoon so we could have some daylight to see out of the train as we went went to swizzy. good call on that. see mountains =awesomeness. WHOA---the train just turned around. whats up with that? although my phone just buzzed, saying that im now in switzerland, so it must be all good. i don't care. fine, train take me somewhere else in swizzy. i'll deal, as long as im in a new place exploring and stuff. so whatever...

Jess is passed out, again, so im taking some time to write this little blog of mine...there's nothing to stare at anymore cause its dark outside anyways (at lie 430 pm everyday)...

so innsbruck was pretty cool. except for the rain/cloud factor. when we got there, it was pouring outside...but we found the best hostel ever right down the street. it was like a hotel but ultra cheap and the people were super chill. the old town was close to us as well...so we walked down there and found some good traditional austrian restaurant called teh goldenes dachl. i had a massive plate of meet. seriously. all kinds of meat this meat on the side. gangsta. it was completely insane. explored some little streets for a while after but it was definitely raining hard so we just kicked back at the hostel afterwards.

so after snoozing like 17 times we woke up and realized it actually wasnt raining, so we took off to look at some cool stuff. the olympics were here in the 70's so we went to that area, cause Zaha did a big ski jump there. not as cool as we hoped because of the stupid clouds. they were in the way of the awesome mountains. stuuuupid clouds. but the ski jump that zaha did was pretty dope in itself. (jess didn't agree at all). we got bored of this area pretty quick, despite the large amount of "sexy shops" that could be found everywhere. they were pretty interesting.

went back to the old town and immediately got some gluhwein, of course. The town is really cool, but it was missing that picturesque view of the mountains behind it, because once again, the STUPID clouds were blocking everything. so the next best thing to do besides look at the mountains would be...drum roll...how about a little beaver-looking stuffed animal that yodels and wear an austrian hat? heck ya. as we headed back to the station to leave for switzerland the clouds started to break, of course. perfect timing, when we are leaving. but, we could begin to see the ginourmously large mountains covered in snow directly surrounding the entire city. it was awesome for sure. this is what the city really looked like.

at the station we bought a little baquette and brie action for the 5 hr train ride we were about to go on. also prepared to battle for the first spot on the train, so we could actually get a good spot. BATTLE. this is necessary because last time be got screwed and sat with a little baby the whole time.....babies suck on trains. so now we are about 2 hrs from basel (on the border of france, germany, and switzerland) and we are continually pretending to be asleep everytime the train stops at a station. that way people wont disrupt our little private cubby area...no more babies!