Prettiest Weekend Ever.

We got to Interlaken late Friday night, and found out that our hostel was actually in a neighboring town (not my planning), and walked about 30 minutes to get there.  I didn't mind though, it was really nice out, and we had a nice view of the mountains the whole way there.
The next morning, we got up early to start our day of canyoning.  I was a little nervous from the videos I had seen online.  I’m usually ok with heights, but not so much with jumping off of stuff.  I had issues with jumping off smaller cliffs on our camping trip to Inks Lake a few weeks ago.  But I was really excited about the amazing views of the Alps.  So the guide stopped by our hostel and drove us to Outdoor Interlaken, and then took my money :( It is NOT cheap to jump off of waterfalls.
They fitted us for all of our gear; a wet suit, a wet suit jacket, shoes, a helmet, and a life jacket, and we loaded up in their van for an hour drive out to the canyon.  We had amazing views of the mountains the whole way there.

After a short hike from the van, we hit our first waterfall.  The guide told us that we had to be absolutely sure that we wanted to do this, because past this first jump, we would have to make it to the end, or be airlifted out.  So obviously, I jumped.

After a long day of that, our guide offered to take us back to our hostel.  He was off work after our trip, so this cut into his free time, but he still offered, and even took a detour to show us around town.  Aside from the few souvenir shop owner that hated tourists, Interlaken seemed like a very friendly town.  So when we got back to the hostel, we said bye to Carrie, who was leaving for her hang gliding trip, cleaned up, and spent the rest of the day walking around the streets of Interlaken.  Most of the stores were Swiss Army Knife or Swiss chocolate stores.  We knew how expensive Switzerland was supposed to be, so we packed our food in from Bonn.  So I walked around gnawing on bread and sausage.

The next morning, I had to walk back to Outdoor Interlaken to pick up my canyoning video.  I made it probably 3-4 miles there and back in less than an hour before we had to meet for checkout.  It was pretty exhausting, but I made it just in time.  With the little time we had before our train, we took a tram to the top of a mountain for lunch.  There was an awesome view, but it was a rainy day, so it didn’t look nearly as good as the day before.

This is what “not as good” looks like in Switzerland:

So after lunch, we headed back to the train station to go back to Germany.  I had another amazing dinner with my host family to get ready for our last week in Bonn.