Swiss Trip: The Highlights

Jen, Jeanna and I left for our trip to Switzerland, like, 2.5 months ago. It was amazing and beautiful and there's SO MUCH TO TELL YOU, and so I'm getting started.

we took a little commuter plane from SLC to Houston (is that right?)
it was teeny and bumpy and it lasted three hours.

THE HIGHLIGHTS (in no particular order):

-"Scrunchamania"

I (Gina) killed the power with my blow drier. For the entire upstairs of our B&B.

-Being sleep deprived for almost the entirety of the trip.
-Swimming in the Rhein.
-Staying with Yana and Sergio for a few nights.

-Temporarily losing our Swiss Pass. Yikes.

-Rigi Kulm was freakin' amazing.

-The chocolate. Oh, the chocolate!

-Difficulty finding Laderach, but totally worth it.

-EVERY day is a big day.

-Missing our Sound of Music tour (in Austria, obviously),

and getting a private tour instead.

-Staying in the sketchy Munich hotel.

-"To hell with it."

-Bratwurst and bread. #yum

-Swiss ice cream is the bomb.

-Traffic

-"Why aren't you a rockstar?!"

-"I'm really good at Asian."

-"Can you please not talk loud?"

-BEANO!

-Mozartballs (am I right, Jen?)

-The ridiculous shower head in one of the B&Bs

-Third floor, room six

-What makes the water so blue? "KoolAid powder."

-Meiringen waitress bringing our receipt with our food.
Somehow, she didn't like us before we eve sat down.

-"This gum is so much better than the meringue."

-Being ill-prepared for the cold that is Jungfrau
(Jeans wore 3 layers total).

-44km/h wind blowing Jen around on the ice at the Top of Europe.

-Accidentally knocking a guy (pretty hard) at Jungfrau

and then sitting across from him on the train back to town.

-If we were flavors, we would be:
chocolate, cinnamon, and...wheatgrass.

-"So what does 'donzerly' mean?"

-"Hode on, hode on!"

-SOMEone had a hard time figuring out military time...

-"Hey, he took off his sweater vest."

-"I'd like to see the Matterhorn, but I've been on the Disney ride,

so that's basically the same thing." #cultured

-We found Dr. Pepper in Wengen!

-"Jeanna, I'm so glad you were born in the wrong decade!"
-In order to cheer Jen up after someone took off with her iPad,
I decided to sing her a Michael Jackson song (her favorite artist);
the song that came out of my mouth? Smooth Criminal
-Doing a session at the Bern temple
-Barely making it onto our train to Zurich at the busiest
time of day in Bern
-A tall handsome man offering to help me with my luggage
when he saw me struggling onto the train.
-Meeting Oliver, who works in Bern and lives in Zurich, who was
very helpful, friendly, and handsome. He sat and talked with us
for a good portion of the ride to Zurich, and he even gave us
his password to use his wifi on the train. We kind of loved Oliver.
-I got smooshed by train doors. It did not feel terrific.
-The Burg Hohenklingen hike. Yana said it would be a pleasant little walk,
but she lied. We were sweaty and gross by the time we reached the castle.
-Stein am Rhein is probably the quaintest of all the villages in the world.

Switzerland is amazing, and I was in terrific company the entire time. (Jen and Jeanna are stellar travel companions.)

I really enjoy flying...

Our flight from Houston to London was gigantic. Also, we got photo bombed. :)

You're welcome for flying Swiss!

More posts (and especially pictures) of the actual trip: forthcoming!