From Venice. . . Switzerland

-We've very succinctly finished our trip and made it back to the states, but we're not finished with everything we did in Europe, so the blog continues.-

Venice was very nice and from there we planned to make a zigzag across Switzerland and Germany to our flight on Wednesday out of Belgium. We'd used up all of our loose Euros and we're ready to pull out Swiss Francs (switzerlands currency)

We got in late to Switzerland, and since we had forgotten to fill our water bottles, we landed thirsty. We had our first suprise at a little kiosk buying water. Where most countries sold bottled drinks for 1Euro, we found the price here at 3.50 Swiss Francs. Exchange rates aside, that's about $1.70 and $3.75 respectivly.

It only got more astonishing from there as we found that Switzerland is a vey expensive country. We did find affordable food though, and sampled the best their supermarkets had to offer in bread and cheese.

We had landed in a town called Interlaken, because it had the cheapest hostels we could find, but we had zero idea what Interlaken was all about. Our guidebook had a brief section telling us it was a Swiss town. We figured it'd be a sleepy alpine village.

Interlaken is the extreme sports capital of Switzerland, at the base of the mountain range that leads to Jungfrau which is modestly dubbed, the top of Europe. Pictures of that soon. I couldn't convince Jessi to jump out of a plane or jump off a cliff with me, so intead we took a hike to the Trummelbach falls.

Amazing. Trummelbach feeds directly from some of the largest glaciers in Switzerland, and consists of 10 waterfalls that have carved their way through underground caverns within a mountain. You ride a funicular to the top and walk your way down from there. Easily the most intense thing we saw in Europe.

Furthermore while walking to the falls, we saw Swiss Cows, Goats, Gondolas, base jumpers, para gliders, and we're pretty sure 1 sky diver. We were walking out in the middle of this wide valley, when all of a sudden we here this loud rustling noise almost like a crash. We turn around just in time to see this sky diver's chute open, and see him land not even 200 yards away. Right out of the bloody sky, incredible.

Pricy? Yeah Switzerland was pricy, but we made it work and made incredible memories.