We had a Swiss pass which covers you for everything like the lift to the top which turned out to be so expensive when I went back to zermatt after they had left. It takes about thirty minutes to reach the very top but we got off the lift about half way to have a half way drink! So the top of the mountain is over 9000 feet tall and had amazing views of the glacier that's up there. There were a lot of people skiing and I was reallllllly jealous! I think it's been since high school since I have gotten to go skiing but I think I'll fix that this winter! We stayed up there for a little bit but since we weren't skiing here wasn't a whole lot to do. We went back down to the town to find some food because I was starving and we went to this Italian place. Zermatt is right night to Italy and you can go on one side of the mountains and be in Italy. It was literally the best tortellini I have had since Italy and I actually think I might have cried a tear or two it was so good. We went to talk with the paragliding guys and set up to go flying again the next day.
On Saturday, while waiting to go to the shop to go fly we just kept stopping at fun different bars for drinks and watched some of the diving from the Olympics which was pretty awesome. I wish I did anything half as good as those guys can dive! We got to the shop and waited for a while but they said the winds had picked up too much and we wouldn't be able to go then we had to wait til after 5. We were leaving for Zurich because mom and dads plane left at like 10 am and since it was 3 hours or so to get there we decided not to wait because then we would get there so late. While waiting for the next train to leave I decided I was going to come back to Zermatt on Sunday after they left and go paragliding again. I went back to the shop and set it up to fly from the very top that we had been at the day before! I was so excited! We went to Zurich and stayed at a renaissance. By the way the only Marriott hotels in Switzerland are in Zurich and Lucerne. I definitely wished there had been more but my employee discount card definitely came in hand for those nights!! Switzerland is ridiculously expensive!
We had dinner at the restaurant there because there was a really big festival going on in the center of town and we didn't feel like dealing with all of those people. It was an Asian restaurant and it was really good! Mom and dad tried to eat with their chopsticks but eventually gave up. The waitress even tried to teach them how to hold them.
They left at like 8 the next day and their plane had been delayed an hour so they got a little bit more sleep. I left about an hour after them and went walking through Zurich for a while. I got back on the train and went back to zermatt. When I finally found my hotel the guy at check in said there was a live music concert with beer and food going on in the middle of town. I had seen some parade when I had gotten thereby wasn't sure what it was about. When they say live music out here they mean like bands dressed in what looked like to me to be what they wore in colonial days. I'm sure it's the traditional outfit from forever ago. Either way it was adorable. So they had all these different bands playing for some festival that they have every yr. it was super awkward to be alone so I just started drinking. I tried to ask one of the guys from on of the bands where they were from and what the festival was for but he only spoke French. One of the other guys spoke a little bit of English so he tried to answer my question. They had to catch a train but were going to get a drink and when they found out that it was just me they felt bad and asked if I wanted to come. We went right across from the station and had a few beers before they left. They kept trying to talk to me so I think the one guy was sick of trying to translate everything. They all left and I went to my hotel.
The next morning I was to be at the shop by 8 to go paragliding around the Matterhorn! I got there and we went up as fast as we could because he said the winds were supposed to pick up and make it do we couldn't fly. I loved this guy Phil! He was awesome. He's from Australia of course because who have I met that isn't canadian or Australian. He was putting on sunscreen but he just put it on his nose and he looked just like Larry the lobster from sponge bob and I started cracking up. So we got to the very top where mom and dad and I had been a few days before so it was all snowy. Her wasn't much wind up there so he said we were going to have to run. If you've met me you know I'm pretty clumsy. Me running on snow hoping not to trip and slide down the side of this giant mountain. I thought he was crazy! Well thankfully I didn't trip and we got off the mountain and had the most amazing flight! It was gorgeous being up there. He told me about how he flew one day for like 8 hours! And another time he flew into Italy somewhere and had to catch a train back! Next yr sometime he gets to go fly off Kilimanjaro. It's usually illegal to do but there are 200 pilots who have to raise 5000 each for a charity and it's like the only time the mountain will be open for pilots to fly off of so he is super excited. The flight was awesome but the landing not so much. It was more of a crash landing but it was hilarious. I think I tripped when trying to stand up to land and so he fell on top of me and it was just so graceful. I could not stop laughing and I even have it on video! I bought the pictures he took and put them on a card that I bought at the grocery store next door. However when I tried to put them on my iPad they won't show up for some reason so I have to figure that out before you can see my awesome crash landing!!
I left zermatt with the hopes of getting to nice France but when I got to geneva they told me it wasn't possible and I would have to go the next day. I got up at 5 am this morning to catch a train and have been on two different trains since 6 am. It's currently 1 and I won't be there til 5. It actually hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I'm just ridiculously sick of sitting down. I bought some popcorn from the store and when I went to eat it I realized I miss everyone in accounting so much!! I haven't had popcorn since leaving concord :(
I am however in France right now so that's pretty exciting!
Oh I also found dr pepper!!!!! It was the best tasting dr pepper I have ever had in my whole life! It only needed some soco . . .
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