Yes, yes, the hills are alive.

Dude. that's like the only thing that anyone knows about switzerland . . . they all get the same picture in their heads of the von Trap family hiking around in the alps. Well, from my experience, I think they'd need to be wearing a little more than what they had on in the movie in order to not perish from hypothermia.

Anyway, Switzerland is gorgeous, and you must go if you are able. Most of the pictures are landscapes, because the country is just, well, so beautiful! It was awesome. Anyway, we took and overnight train and arrived in the town we were supposed to meet Karl in around 9:15. We saw lots of waterfalls and pretty mountains and things on the way. I found a funny sign
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20012.html
It says 'not smart' over the lady and 'not a cow' under the other guy. We were really hungry, and Ling and Vanessa wanted some hot food. One of them asked for chicken--we weren't sure why, but she did, so Sam and I went off to the supermarket to see if we could bag some breakfast. We found a chicken. a whole one. so we bought it. We brought it back with some bread and cheese, and had a really good breakfast (we ate the whoooole chicke, btw). We were supposed to go hiking, but it was raining and no one had any kind of rain gear or even any real hiking gear, because we just really came to Europe to be tourists. so we debated taking the ski lifts up the mountain in order to get to the hostel we were supposed to stay at that night. Here's us in front of the ski lifts.
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20013.html
yeah, you can probably guess that I made fun of Karl a lot when he was wearing that rain gear. You should have seen him turn to the side. He had a huge hiking backpack on, and so he looked kinda like a camel walking on 2 legs with that poncho on. hehe. love you, Karl! We decided that was too expensive, and the train was free, so we took the train up the mountain to another little town that had a bus up to the place we were staying. Funniest bus driver I've ever had. And I spose it helped his case that he spoke Swiss-German. Such a funny language. really cool. When we got there we decided to do a mini hike and walked around in the Alps for awhile, because it had stopped raining. We saw some cool lakes and little houses and lots of cows.
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20050.html
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20058.html
this is a fun picture, because Sam thinks he is spiderman in it and we all kinda look crooked even though we are not . . .
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20063.html
We went back to the hostel, had dinner, and played chinese poker and then a game called Kent for awhile. It was fun, and I was singing German songs all night long . . .

The next morning the clouds moved in. It was really foggy. Even the cows thought so
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20074.html
This is the little place we stayed in
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20072.html
We hopped back on the bus with the crazy cool bus driver, because it was indeed still raining pretty hard, so we couldn't hike down. We had a few hours to kill, so we decided to visit Bern. It was a nice city, we had some good food, I made fun on Sam's shirt
http://web.mit.edu/kmwerts/www/album/Germany/Switzerland/slides/Switzerland%20082.html
and we saw some bears and a cathedral and a few other places in Bern. Then we hopped on a train and headed home.

I had to finish this quick, because I'm going to Italy in a few hours, and if I don't write about this now, I'll never do it, I'm sure!!

Anyway, got to get back to work. I'm leaving Germany in 2 weeks from tomorrow! wow!

Kendall

Music: Wir Sing Helden, die Ärzte, 3EB, 2Raumwohnung, Wise guys, and some random Jack's mannequin in there.