Alps

Saturday morning we headed up through Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen, home of Staubbach falls, the 900 foot unbroken waterfall and popular base jumping location.  From Lauterbrunnen, we caught a train up the mountain to the town of Wengen resting 4170 feet above sea level.  The views were incredible. From Wengen we took the tram up the Mannlichen and then hiked up to the highest point for a great view of Interlaken, Lake Thun and the surrounding alps.   

I just love this picture of Matthew just chillin' with his pants open.

Jumping pictures, of course.  Here are some more young budding jumpers.

I wanted a higher angle for this photo so I got on Chris' shoulders for this shot.  The other tourists were taking photos of us taking photos.  

 Three peaks stand above the rest: Jungfrau (young girl), Eiger (ogre), and Monch (Monk).  It’s really hard to see what’s going on up there, so Chris, Chris, and Katie helped illustrate that the monk is protecting the young girl from the ogre.  I really think Katie’s theatre camp was worth every penny because she nailed that role.  Just look at her!

After a salami sandwich lunch, we hiked a couple hours over to Klein and took the train back down to Lauterbrunnen.

We really got so lucky with the weather.  It was gorgeous almost the whole time we were up there with a clear view of the Alps.   Only after we boarded the train to Lauterbrunnen did it start to rain on us. 

Everything in Switzerland is SO EXPENSIVE.  We had no idea it would that bad.  We were lucky to find a nice restaurant with 30” pizzas for 15 francs.  Everything else on the menu was 20-40 francs, but the pizzas covered us pretty well.  In fact, it was probably the best pizza I have ever had… including anything I had in Italy. 

We retired to the farm that evening for more Dominion and snacks.