travels

The mountains were BeaUtiFul!!... The first night there I got there late but met some really nice backpakers and heard about their amazing travles. Some had been going for 7 months already and planned to go at least 3 more months before returning home. That would be exhausting... but amazing. The next day the skies were quite grey but I hiked for 5 hours in the morning and then returned the the really welcoming hostel to relax away the afternoon. At night stephanie arrived with 2 guys she met on the train ride there and we all played cards with antoher girl I had met that is an intern from michigan in geneva. The next day was clear blue skies and me and stephanie climbed to 2698 m... as high as we could get without more gear for ice/snow. It was quite amazing and exhausting. I will definatly be returning to get to the top of Slithorn (the mountain we were climbing) in the spring when the weather i nice.

Then- London. Quite the opposite of the mountains. Day one was travling from 9:15 am, until about 9:30 pm. The flight was only 1.5 hours about, but it flew out of germany, and then once in london you have a 1.5 hour bus ride to the city and a 45 min ride to where you want in the city and then we took the wrong bus so a 45 min walk to the hostel. All in all long day.
Other days... We got front row seats to see Wicked (a musical about the wicked witch from the west before being evil). We went to the National Gallery and saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers Monet's The Water-Lily Pond Renoir's The Umbrellas and Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks along with many other very awesome paintings...
The National Portrait Gallery, The London Museum (which had basically the history of london which as interesting) The Britih Museum which had the Rosetta stone, lots of the Parthenon and just a ton of cool stuff... one of the most amazing museums in the world.
We took a walking tour of the Roman ruins in London which was very interesting and saw a lot of things we wouldn't have seen just wakling around. We saw London bridge, tower bridge, the tower of london, the london eye, Westminster abbey (we even went to a church service there), Buckingham palace, the House of Parliment, Abbey Road, that 9 3/4 harry potter train stop, The british library, Stonehenge (magical) and lots of little markets that were a ton of fun.
I also went to a night club that was just.... incredibly posh and not my thing.
Overall a very good trip, saw a lot of cool stuff, but glad to get out of london. It is grey and busy and all the people look clean and pressed, where are the scruffy people? Hiding in london apparently. or maybe they just can't afford to live there (veryyy expensive city, even compared to switzerland i think)
Returning to work and switzerland has been nice and relaxing. Nothing too exciting happening here at the moment. Getting excited for Italy in November, or more so just seeing my mom :-). Also planning a halloween party for some kids in the village YAY. I think I will be a porcupine.