So.... As I mentioned, yesterday it was Swiss national day. But anyway I met a lot of new people last night (tehehehehehe great fun). Mum and dad, went for a walk..... (Ha that's sounds like the kids book.. Rosie the hen went for a etc) so yeah they left me in the lounge using the wifi on my iPod. First some American scout supervisors came in and I talked for them for about half an hour, then they left and a group of kids around my age (16) came in. They were from a really good ski school and they were pretty much professional skiers... Ha I can't ski... Anyway I talked to them for about an hour and a half which was, to the say the least was very loud spastic and quite hilarious... So I learnt the names of 5 out of the 9 which I'm pretty proud about, I met Charlotte, Pingu (just a nick name), Izzy, Haggy and Oliver. The other I remember as, girl with broken ankle, boy who was the only normal one, girl who wasn't Charlotte (I kept calling her Charlotte) and girl who left her phone behind (when she came back she had 642 photos taken on her phone in half an hour). Anyway enough about my new spastic friends (who I'll probably never see again). Last night people were setting fireworks off everywhere. There was someone at our youth hostel setting them off in the courtyard, but the highlight was the main fireworks that started at 10 o'clock. They were the most spectacular fireworks I've ever seen. They were all colours and some of them exploded twice and then sparkled to the ground so they made a kind of dome shape :D awesome. Dad and I went outside and mum watched them out the window. Anyway we really didn't get much sleep last night, but meh.
Ok so on to today!
We woke up at 6:30 and left at 8:45. We then took 4 trains and one bus to Grindelwald. We arrived at 12:40 and proceeded to dump out big packs at a luggage drop and then took a bus to a glacier gorge which was about 100m deep and 10m across in places. We walked up and down it and it took us about an hour. There were lots of interesting rocks and some pretty scary tunnels along the side. Anyway we went back to the station picked up our bags and then took another bus to the youth hostel we are staying at tonight. When we arrived, we collapsed on our beds and I got really bored (yeah that's why this blogs so long)
Sorry about the calibre of the last couple of blogs I've been a bit tired.
So yeah
Au revoir
Alastair
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