Weekend in Switzerland

Interlaken was the best weekend of my life!! Keep in mind this is my third weekend in Europe. But Still!!  I spent the first day paragliding and the second day snowboarding.  Paragliding was completely on a whim. Basically we weren’t going to do anything the first day but walk around and go ice skaing. But you know me, I can’t just sit around and waste my day. So I convinced everyone I was with to go paragliding. It was so much fun!!!

Basically we drove a car up the mountain and then put on snow pants and started our walk to the cliff (it wasn’t really a cliff it was more of a drop off). I was attached to someone of course and when we were all hooked up we just started running and then before I knew it I was flying over Switzerland. It was unbelievable. I could see everything!

When it was time to land the man I was attached to asked me if I liked roller coasters. Of course I said yes. So he started doing turns in the air and I was having a blast!

That night we went to a fondue dinner. This included three courses. The first course was cheese fondue. We had a basket of bread and then they put hot cheese in a pan on our table. We dipped the bread in the cheese and ate it. That was my favorite part of the meal.

The second course was hot oil. We were given a pan of hot oil and a side of uncooked meat. The meat included steak, chicken and pork. We would put the meat on the skewer and put the skewer in the hot oil pot and let the meat cook. Meanwhile, while these meats were cooking, we were being served white rice and French fries.

The third course was dessert. We were served chocolate fondue, which was SURPRISINGLY not up to par if you ask me. But it was still part of the experience.

I then walked back to the hostel and I was way too tired to stay up so I went to bed really early especially because I was waking up early to go snowboarding.

When I woke up IT WAS TIME TO SNOWBOARD. This was actually the best day of my life. We made our way to the mountain and hopped on the gondola to go to the top. When I walked out of the gondola there are not even words to describe the view but here are a few to try amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, unbelievable. It actually reminded me of Copper Mountain in Colorado a little bit.

The trails were mostly very wide and not icy which was such a nice change from those Connecticut mountains (hills). We were actually skiing above the clouds. I could look down and just see clouds pass me by. 

We snowboarded the entire day with a maximum of a half hour lunch break. We had to leave the deck we were sitting on because we weren’t buying anything from the restaurant inside. I survived on rice cakes, peanut butter (4 euros), and granola that weekend. I tried spending as little money as possible!