Ok woke up at 6:30 and left by 7:50 in an attempt to catch the 8:09 train which ended up being the 8:17 train! We took the train up to the jungfraujoch also known as the top of Europe. It is an area that is 3454m above sea level and you can catch a train to it!!!! Ok so the train stopped twice before the top station and at these 2 little stations you could see views across a nearby glacier and views across a valley (not sure which one). The train goes through the Eiger (the big mountain around here) and pops out on the south side. When we got off we went to a cafe to get coffee, hot chocolate and something to eat so that we could recover from our altitude sickness. (Everyone got it.. Believe me it's not easy to breath up there). While we were drinking our coffee a group of Asian came and dumped some of there stuff on the other half of our table and then they began making noodles. You have no idea how funny it was. People were everywhere it was like being in a swarm of bees flavoring packets were being opened noodles spread out hot water poured and it all happened in minutes. If they'd moved any faster they would have been a blur. We decided they were on speed because it was so frenetic. (I must admit I've never seen anything like it)
Anyway we did a short walk across a glacier to a hut where we had lunch (the walk wasn't very short it took us about 1 hour but because of the altitude we were huffing and puffing the whole way and very exhausted at the end. For lunch mum and dad had pea soup and I had sausage. It was very nice because we were so tired. We walked back and had a few snowball fights (good fun).
When we got back dad spotted a place where there were skis to hire. We went skiing... Well dad went skiing I may as well have gone sliding on my butt down hill for the amount of times I fell over, did you know... Skiing is not easy. Well yeah I'm really sore and tried after that. We took the train home and had a nice talk to a couple from Melbourne. Oh and it rained really heavily but ahh well I was already wet. Got home and collapsed (again)
Goodnight
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