Monday, October 12, 2009

Direction- Interlaken Ost

Because it is going to be impossible for me to fit my trip to Switzerland in one blog post, I am splitting it into a few and not necessarily in the right order. Where do I begin...I know! The airlines. Swiss Air is officially my new favorite airline. Let's just put it this way. For a late night flight, I was graced with leg room, two Toblerone chocolate bars, a buttered pretzel, and a Heineken- all included in the ticket price. American airlines need to get their act together! Anyway, our flight arrived in Geneva, Switzerland at 11 o clock on Thursday night and our train didn't head out until the next morning at 7 or so, so our original plan was to sleep...did we sleep? No! We took the train into Geneva city center to explore with the knowledge that the next available train to the airport was at 5 in the morning.

We quickly realized that Geneva is not known for its night life so we started searching for "the place to be." After wandering through a Kebap restauraunt, two bars, a couple of conv
enience stores, and various streets, we got a tip about a local place that turned out to have a small club bar downstairs that was open until 5, and a cabaret show upstairs. Mona insisted that we go, and because we had happened across 100 francs earlier in the night, we went on in. We proceeded to watch a Cabaret show in French that we could not understand but could see very well. We watched Cinderella take it off to the PussyCat Dolls' "When I grow up" as well as the traditional "Hey Big Spender" number. Needless to say, it was hilariously awesome. On top of all that, we found out that one of the performers was from Kansas and
we talked to her about living abroad for a while. Afterwards, we went to the club
downstairs and danced away to the most strange mix of music I have ever heard. Everything from Madonna to Jewish Barmitzvuh (sp?) to Eminem. What a night haha. We went back to the airport and caught our train into Interlaken Ost where we arrived around 10 in the morning! Vilkommen!

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