Greetings from the pre-Alps! Update: Nick is currently in the process of climbing up that mountain. I owe him dinner if he makes it back by 9. Last night we went out for real Swiss fondue and it was fabulous. Then we hung around the bars at the hostel and did laundry... finally. This morning we had to be ready to go canyoning at 9am. It took a half hour or so to get our equiptment and another 45 minutes to an hour to get up the mountain. We had a ...

Switzerland is amazing. The train ride last night went much better than expected. We had a six person bunk room (3 beds on each wall) and the sixth person in the room was the sweetest girl named Elly from South Korea. She got off in the middle of the night in Frankfurt and left us a note thanking us for the wonderful time she had. Anyways I think we all got more sleep than we thought we would, aside from the fact that we woke up in the middle of the night d...