i arrived on thursday night to meet my parents in the airport in Zurich and from there we went to our hotel, grabbed a late bite to eat at this pub near the hotel and headed to bed, ready for the next day adventure to Interlaken. The next morning we got up early and headed to the train station, and within 2 hours we had made it to Interlaken and the whole way there we had gorgeous views of the countryside along the way even though it was raining! once we got there we had some lunch and did some shopping around town. we were in our room when all of a sudden we heard lots of noise, almost like bells and as i looked out the window we saw a heard of cows coming down the road being followed by a man completely dressed in the stereotypical swiss outfit!! it was so funny, unfortunately i missed the picture!! but for dinner we found this great place called the Chalet. the next day we headed to Lucern, unfortunately a 2 hour train ride but it was absolute gorgeous again the entire way there, this time we were on a panoramic train and we went to this town way up in the mountains where it was snow/raining! we made it to lucern to find it was a lot colder there than it had been in Interlaken but fortunately it wasn't raining there. we hopped on a ferry to get to Burgenstock, but once we made it to what we thought was burgenstock we found out we had to take a tram up to the top of the cliff/mountain to get to burgenstock! it was absolutely fantastic! the tram was really steep but we had so many gorgeous views and we actually ate lunch right on the cliff looking out onto lake lucern! it was breath taking! as we walked around the town a bit we kept hearing these bells, well learning earlier that it was the cows being moved we kept looking for them cause i wanted to get a picture but we couldn't find anything...finally we saw this one man leading one cow on a leash down the 1 lane road, well we watched as the car came down and wondered how this man was going to deal with the cow...dont worry there was a cow turn out! just like a car turnout would be for the slow cars, this was just a smaller version that couldn't fit a car...just a cow! only in switzerland!! we headed back that evening and grabbed dinner at the same restaurant and had fabulous cheese fondue!! the next morning we decided to trek to the Top of Europe! we took a bunch of little, old trains to get there! but it was absolutely worth everything! the view was spectacular, and luckily it had cleared up for us so it was a beautiful day! i cant even explain how amazing this place was! we even found an "igloo" up there, what they call the ice palace, was just a big igloo that you could walk through! it was sooo much fun! but unfortunately i had to leave the next morning so we headed back to zurich early and my parents are staying there one more night and then will head home. but we had such an amazing time!! switzerland was absolutely amazing! i recommend it to anyone and if anyone else goes, count me in!!! we were thinking we might move there if the US is going down the tubes!
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