Niederau

This is definitely not what I was expecting. When I put in innsbruck on hostel world this hostel popped up so I thought it was pretty close. Nope not a bit. The hostel is an hour train ride and a 20 min bus ride away from there. It's a very tiny ski resort town. Since its summer they have lots of hiking and stuff like that. I checked into my hostel and went to go find the paragliding! There was no wait so this guy and I just went right up the lift to the top of the mountain. He was pretty cool, he grew up in this town and his job is to take people and jump off mountains. that's an awesome job! It was a lot like skydiving except you don't jump out of an airplane. I was strapped in in front of him. I was so worried I was going to make us trip and we would just roll down the mountain. He said to run and while we were running the parachute thing opened up and took us up in the air! I think we were up there for 7 or 8 minutes but it was so amazing being up in the air over this tiny town and all the mountains surrounding you. He even let me drive! He said all the American boys pull the handles that you use to steer with so hard so they don't get very long rides. All the fun stuff just makes you go faster. When we landed we pretty much just slid in on our butts I bought he pictures he had taken but instead of having to pay 115 he gave me a special price of 100. Wahoo. Such savings haha. I had dinner and went to the hostel and finished watching princess and the frog from the train ride earlier that day and passed out.

On the 18th, I got up early because I wanted to go canyoning which is when they take you up a mountain and you get down it by ziplines and jumping off cliffs and waterfalls and stuff. There wasn't a tour going that day but he told me to come back later bc maybe one would go the next day. I went back to the hostel and had a missed call from bubba. He saw that I had put on fb that I had jumped off a mountain and I think he was worried about me!! It was nice to talk to him. He had just gotten off work so it was like 2 or 3 in tx. after I talked to him a took a little mini nap before going hiking. I had this awesome plan that I would go to the grocery store and get some fruit and cheese and have a little picnic on the mountain. This is where the language barrier sucks. I got a perfectly normal looking thing of cheese and a apple and some bananas. When I opened up the cheese I thought that I could smell my feet. Nope it was worse than smelly feet I almost threw up from how bad the cheese smelled so I threw it away lol. I hiked for an hour or so and stopped at a restaurant on the mountain. I got sausages and chips which turned out to be a hot dog minus the bun and French fries so that worked. When I got back to the hostel there were two more Americans there from Alaska. The guy that runs the hostel is from London and he said the town was having a big thing with a band and that they were going to go. I went and had dinner and then went to the band thing. It was not what I was expecting bc it was like a traditional band with the clarinets and flutes and stuff but they were all dressed up in their lederhosen so it was cool. There was a guy selling things made from honey so I bought a candle for some reason. He also gave me two shots of like honey liquor. The first shot of it was good but the second not so much!! I went back to the hostel bc the had never come from the hostel like they said they were going too! When I was almost back I saw the Alaskans and stopped to talk with them for a while. They have been in Europe about a week or two longer than me and were going the opposite way I am going. Back in my room, I got online and talked to some friends which was really nice!! I miss everyone a whole lot!

I'm just sitting at the train station in worgl waiting on a train to Vienna. I should probably figure out what I'm going to do while there. Colette is in Dresden and then Berlin for a week so I am trying to make it to Berlin while she's still there. She's so much fun and I think she will be back in Paris by the time I get there so we get to hang out again! Also I think my parents are coming to visit for a week or so and will be here around the 1st or 2nd!! We are going to meet in Switzerland. There is a place in interlaken that you can also go canyoning so I think I will try and talk daddy into doing that with me!