Swiss Alps

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Most breathtaking place Ive seen. Our camp site was picturesque situated in a valley surrounded by the alps and the greatest waterfall in Switzerland only 100 m away

on arrival we witness an event thta happens only once every 9 years the waterfall suddenly caved into a mudslide, clear water suddenly brown with rocks falling; at first i was concerned as it was next to me but after it was evident that it was self contained and not going to collapse by the next morning it had cleared and so had teh rain. for this site we had teh option of paying 10 eruo a night for a warm dry cabin; I put my hand up for that in a flash sick of setting tents in teh rain and cold and knowing here it would ruin the beauty to haveto worry about such things;

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the next day we took the clog rail along an amazing secnic route to the highest mountain in europe. along teh way there were incredible pastures and mountains like no other, teh sound of cow bells chimed thru the crisp fresh air as cows and goats grzed in teh gren pastures in the distance the snow drapped mountained flowed with what looked like waterfalls at first; dozens of them; until clearer vision showed it was in fact snow falls; flowing freely against a brown mountain backgorund: BEAUTIFUL!

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we then entered insid ethe mountains and were told to close teh windows because of teh minus degree temp, we made stops inside were we existed into the cold and looked out windos at teh incredible scenery below; so cold i hate the cold i had five layers on and still forze:

we reached teh establishment at teh peak, indoors adn heated, with veiws of white outside i exited on th balcony and took photos captivated by my surrounding, the boys had had a big night and no sleep adn were not able to take it all in, i made sure to sleep; they walked outside and slept in the cold on teh balcony: i left to continue my adventure, later hearing stories that they woke to find tourists laying beside them taking photos as they became a tourist attraction:

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i walked into an ice palace careful not o slip on teh ice floors in my sneakers the tunnels were caved of ice it was freezing,; i saw sculptures carved of ice such as life size bears and peguines and crystals i tried to take photos of mysemlf with it but they didnt work so well. an asian man saw me and offered to take a photo of me i shly accepted then met a girl touring alone with an american accent but apparently from australia who i took photos for and she returned teh favour for me; she had lost her wallet and had her camera stolen adn was usinga disposable and deceid to return home after only a week; i tried to convince her to keep going but she had had enough:

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i walked out teh top deck the highest peack coveredin snow each step sinking into the ground scared id slip i tried to capture ht images then returned inside to havea hot chocolate siting on teh carpet by a window sipping away on the delicious swiss flavour writing in my journal and enjoying teh veiw:

steve had woken adn joined me inside he sat adn slept and told me to watch him and his things; he awoke later and we walked to the observation deck where a lot of scientoific experiments and astronomy took place due to the ideal environment hieght adn iscolation of teh mpountain top; we saw jj ; ejong; the south korean girl there who i had grown clos eto teh night before on a walk by the river as she discussed issues with my old tent mate terri, her cureent one; she had been sad adn had no one to talk to because of teh language barrier peopel spoke to her liek a child; i just spoke to her like a person adn listedn and later invited her into my cabin where we spoke of our lives andour ideas on wanting to male a difference our close relationships with our fathers and their infmluence on our characters as well as joking adn laughing about things;

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ejong had found some korean tourists adn was excited; we looked around then said good bye and deceid to go on a 30 min hike thru the alps; steve in his shorts; ejong in her capris , it was pleasant we bumped into others who sked us to look out fo rthei snow man and walked on in search of tabogans just aroundteh croner: suddenly the snow began to fal li was suprisingly warm andtook off some layers, soon the snow grew heavy and it was cold and people were no longer in site, each step my feet sunk into teh ground trying to keep our balance i grew worried, we were now caught in a blizzard and i knew nothing of the dangers of teh snow; i trusted steve as he is canadian; he kept on going i followed for fear of being left alone; the snow was cold my hands and feet burned people were no where and all i saw was white

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after over an hour of walking we found a cabin on teh edge of the cliff i stepped carefull scared of avalanche or slipping over the edge; we went inside and decieded we were betetr to try and return before it got even worse, as no one wasther ethe resturant was closed i was frightened; the journey back was scary and painful and we were tired and burning in teh cold when  ,ade it backi was almost in tears, we went indoors and ate hot spicy korean soup and rushed to catch teh last train back to camp:

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it was an adventure i loved teh site really; walks and waterfalls but no time to see them we would leav eteh next day