Interlaken, Switzerland

We arrived in Interlaken at about 8:00pm. The train ride was one of the best ones we have had. The views were great as we were riding next through mountains for about four hours. Yet another currency exchange needed to be done from EUR to CHF which is very similar to the dollar. Our hostel was pretty cool because it was just as you would imagine a cabin in the mountains. We were walking around the place and the owner of this place seemed to thing he was God's Gift to Switzerland. He must of hung up every article that was ever written about him. Pictures of him with Bill Clinton were being sold as postcards and everyhing he sold had his name all over it, "Balmer."
Shortly after we got settled we decided to "recharge our batteries, and shut down the engines and get ourselves back to neutral."...(name that movie and you get a souvenir) we were starving (whats new) so we went looking for a place to eat. The Only thing that was open was a pizza place so we did that. It was actually really good pizza too and once again there was no conversation while the food was on the table...it all business at dinner time. We are with each other 24 hours a day and the last thing we want to do is chat during feeding time.
The next morning we woke up and decided to do some hiking. We started walking to the train station that brings you up to the spots to hike and as we were walking we got a beep beep by a car. Turns out it was the myth, the man, the legend, the pride of Interlaken, Uncle Eric Balmer,the owner of the hostel, and he gave us a ride to the station. Saved us like 15 minutes. This guy was a gem. He was telling us that we should be taking the train up to Jung Frau instead of hiking. He then get out of his SUV and starts handing out pens, waterbottles, you name it...the guy had it AND with his name written all over it. We made the decision to do the train ride after we were talking to another guy about the hiking and he laughed at us because we had shorts on and he asked if we had any climbing gear with us... We figure it was out of league. The train ride was awesome and we finally got to our stop after about hour and a half. We were about 2600 meters up which is about 8500 feet high. The views of the surrounding mountains and small towns were breath taking. We did some exploring and got some even better views and saw some small avalanches. We stayed on the mountain for about 2 hours and then headed back down where we say some waterfalls on the way. Overall it was a great day and the weather was good which seems to be the theme lately! Florence next.