Today we got home from Interlaken! On Friday we took the bus there. It was a terrifying ride- our bus driver was a sketch and then on a road going down a huge mountain (while it was snowing) we hit a huge line of traffic. Our bus driver decided it was a good idea to cut across the road right before a bend in the road to go to a place to park while the traffic cleared. Well we almost caused another accident doing this! There was a car going very fast around the curve that stopped just in time. Due to the traffic, we almost missed our train to go night sledding. What an experience night sledding was… It was terrifying but a huge adrenaline rush! We started out the night by having a fondue dinner at the top of the mountain. Lots of cheese and carbs… We were all shocked when we saw the crappy plastic sleds that we would be taking down this mountain. The trail was not like tubing back at home- it was a straight up ski trail!! We talked to a few locals on the gondola ride up and they were laughing when we said we didn’t have headlamps and we wearing sneakers. It was not until we started to sled that I saw why they were laughing. The trail was pitch black. There were orange ‘lights’ every 1000 feet or so but they didn’t give off any light.. it was just merely marking the trail. To top it all off the sleds went SO fast and no one had any idea how to steer. We kept our feet out as a way to kind of slow ourselves down! It was honestly a little frightening, but looking back it was really fun!
On Saturday, my friend Ashley and I went skiing on the Swiss Alps. It was absolutely surreal. There were no trees on the trails and the trails were so wide! We had to go through 4 gondola stops before we got to the top of the mountain! It was such an amazing day, I could not believe it as it was happening! All in all this weekend was a great time to bond with everyone on my trip!
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