The Alps in the Spring time
As we were unable to pre book a place to stay online for Switzerland we thought walking around and just going into places would result in an easy victory but boy were we wrong. For some odd reason the stars would not align for us and it took about four hostels and ten hotels to find one that would take us in. Finally around midnight we were broke but in bed. We are well rested and ready to hit the Alps... And by that I mean look at them from afar. We walked around the city the following morning (day nine) but I seem to have acquired a mild foot impairment which makes walking very painful (tissue damage or my heel is just bruised) so we didn't stay long. Instead we decided to go to Bern, the capital of Switzerland, to tour around. So we get to the train station and we put our bags in a locker so we could walk around but we had no change so my mom and I set off to get change while my dad continued watching the bags and this is when the incident occurred. My mom, having no sense of direction and not knowing any French (they speak French in parts of Switzerland), got lost. I had been with her looking for a info center and across the way I saw it and so turned around to say I found it and then started walking, well apparently she did not hear me so when I joined the line at the info center and turned around to talk to her she was not with me. I went back outside to look for her and there she was in the middle of the crowd in a panic. Just as I spotted her she started to run in the opposite direction so I had to call out to her not knowing where she was going. When she recounts the events of the story she says she was lost for ten-fifteen minutes but it all happened within one minute. She survived. Bern was beautiful, we really enjoyed the town, and mom and dad experienced their first kebab, one of my favorites. From Bern we took a train to the small town of Montreux, where the Chateau de Chillon is located on lake Geneva. We had a gorgeous hotel along the lake that had an incredible view of the Alps and after dropping off our bags we went for a walk along the water to the Chateau, and although it was closed we got to see inside and take lots of pictures from the shore line. From the Chateau we bused right into old town (our hotel gave free bus passes to its guests) and stopped at the only restaurant that was open, a Chinese restaurant (I wonder if Chinese is a delicacy in Switzerland?). The next morning (day ten) was foggy so we were lucky to have seen the Alps yesterday. We had the opportunity to finally talk to krystal on Skype since we are really missing her on this trip, although I am very happy to have the chance to travel with my parents (and very fortunate) my sister means the world to me and I would've enjoyed having her with us. After talking with her we set sail to Launasse, which was only a bunny hop away, where we got in some much needed shopping. The town itself was cute but hill-y, never a good thing when you are traveling with seniors, so we packed up again with Geneva on the agenda. When we arrived in Geneva the sun was shinning but that did not last, we had the chance to see the famous jet d'eau and to quickly scramble through old town before the rain came so as per usual we resorted to the train (common occurrence). Our final destination today is Lyon, France, hopefully we can get ahead of this rain and see the town tonight (we'll probably do it regardless but sun would be much appreciated).
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