Well this morning we woke up and headed to town center to walk around and look in the shops. Interlaken is the cutest town! Dad, I got you your birthday present so get excited for July 24th. :)
We have been keeping a list of "you know youre in Europe when..." and one thing on our list is "you know you're in Europe when people around you break out in song randomly." Well, maybe were turning European because y'all would have been blown away with our rendition of "These are a Few of my Favorite Things" that we sang on out walk around town.
We headed to the coop to buy groceries for lunch and dinner. Ate a picnic lunch of turkey swiss cheese tomato sandwiches and fruit except we accidentally ate too much of our allocated dinner portion so we may be heading back to the coop this afternoon. Went back to the hostel where we watched a little CNN about the Casey Anthony deision. Honestly hadnt been following it until a few days ago when literally every single tweet had to do with people's outrage over the situation. We've been in a news bubble over here!
Kenis not feeling so swell today so we went on a scavenger hunt to find Advil because it's apparently a very rare thing over here that's only sold at very special places.
Headed to the train Station and trained it 20 min to the gondola that took us to gimmewald, a little town on the mountain where We are staying for the next few nights. GORGEOUS!! We are literally on a mountain! When we checked into the Mountain Hostel we realized that sure enough we didn't have enough food for dinner and for our hike lunch tomorrow so we hiked up 30 min to Mürren, the next town up the mountain and the closest food store. Bought some pasta and sauce and cooked dinner at the hostel. However, there's these stoves here you have to light with a match. We had no idea how to do that, so we had to get some help from other cookers.
Theres a hike here to a place called the Shilthorn. It's a revolving restaurant on the peak of the mountain where a scene from James Bond was filmed. Keni and I really want to get up to the peak because supposedly the views are beautiful. However, the cable car is $100 and every person we talk to is very discouraging to us about the hike. We are at about elevation 4500ft and the peak is at 10000ft, and no one seems to think we're up to the challenge of the climb. The hostel is full of intense hikers and I think they think we're just not up for it.
And then we met Nick. We got to telling nick how we wanted to see the Shilthorn. He told us we COULD do the hike and SHOULD do it. Well, for better or worse we've decided to get up at 7:30 for a day of climbing 5000ft. I think part of us just wants to prove everyone wrong at the hostel wrong who told us we couldn't do it! Nick's hike splits with ours 2 hrs before the summit so he's going to hike most of it with us- I don't know whether to be thankful for our new friend or to wish we had never met him. Wish us luck!
So... We decided to hurry to bed to rest up for the big hike. Watched the bachelorette on my phone (go JP!!) and then went to sleep early for our 8 am start!!
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