Day one - Tuesday October 14, 2008

The first full day (Mike's Birthday) started out on a bad note. About 30 minutes into our drive to Interlaken we ALL realized that we forgot our cameras. Yes that's right all 5 people in the car forgot to grab one camera. As we walked around Interlaken Christian bought a deposable camera and as soon as he sends us copies of the photos I will post them. Interlaken was very beautiful and a quiet city in between two lakes (hence the name Interlaken, get it?). As we all were walking around Interlaken we found the Hooters (Not that far away Diane, he he he).

After Interlaken we got back in the car and headed up the Alps to Gimmelwald . We grabbed a gondola (See picture below) from Stechelberg (3025 ft) up to Gimmelwald (4593 ft).

This is a very pretty quite town and if you are interested there is a hostel there. We decided to continue up the mountain some more. Christian, Mike, and I wanted to go all the way up to Schilthorn (9748 ft / site of a 007 film) but there was too much fog so we took one more gondola up to Mürren (5361 ft). Aaron and Erika wanted to have a nice walk so they walked the paved path up to Mürren and met the three of us up there. The views from all levels were unbelievable... if you ever go bring a camera. We all walked around Mürren for a while, which was very empty and very few people there, in a cool way, then decided to grab a beer before heading back down the mountains.  One beer turned into... well Mike didn't make it to German class that evening. We all thought it would be nice to take the paved path that Aaron and Erika walked up to go back down. I was a beautiful walk and the views are too breathtaking to ever try to explain. We were all glad we picked to go to Gimmelwald because it is a less known tourist location and that made for a nice quick adventure. 

(This is a photo from the Gimmelwald website, I will add more of our own pictures as soon I get them from Christian). 

After a long day in the mountains we headed home and had a nice Raclette (traditional Swiss dish).  Its all about melting cheese and drinking.  But not like nachos.  Not at all.