We once again had an early morning train to Interlaken which consisted of mostly sleeping. Once we reached the mountain area we all woke up to the most beautiful terrain yet. We had to transfer to a local train 20 min outside of Interlaken and got to ride along the lake with the windows down. Yes I was an extremely happy girl being in the mountains. Once we were off the train we were so happy to see a real sized grocery store and not so crowded streets. Sky-divers were parachuting between the hillsides and you could see chateaus on the peaks. Off in the distance were snow-capped mountains and seemed to be so close.
We stayed at Balmers hostel which had three lodges, bar, beer-garden, club, and a tent village 10 min away. Everything was very Swiss themed with fresh spring water fountains. After checking in we all signed up for canyoning and Justin, Keagan, Darrick, and JW also did a canyon jump. They left immediately to head up to the canyon where they free-fell for 150 ft. and swung like a giant swing at 250 ft. They all agreed it was the most intense thing they have ever done.
The rest of us hung at the restaurant/bar for the evening for happy hour. Over a matter of hours we watched a crazy thunder and lightning storm roll in right over our heads. The sky turned to dark blue as lighting came down throughout the valley. We stayed out until it started to down-pour…a little reminder of home. Later everyone went down to the underground (and only) club in town. The hostel also had a tent village down the road so plenty of people came down.
In the morning we had free breakfast and went tandem biking. As if three guys on one bike isn’t funny enough, JW and Keagan road one that faced opposite directions. JW steered and peddled forward while Keagan faced backwards and peddled the same direction…. It really was hilarious and you will understand when you see pics. It started to downpour again, and lasted all day. In the afternoon we went canyoning. It was easy to say we definitely wanted more time but it was really fun. The water was ice cold but we got to repel down rock faces, swings around cliffs, jump into waterfall pools, and slide down rock slides. If we had more time we would have done every extreme sport there was.
For dinner we (I should say the guys) couldn’t resist the urge for some Hooters wings. We hit the pillow the earliest that night of the entire trip. We could not have survived another night together in that tiny room. It continued to pour the next day as well and left the rest of Interlaken for another time.
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