Zermatt II

Our last day in Zermatt was awesome and maybe even colder! It was so cold that I didn't even want to go outside. We did go out and see some stuff. We went to the old part of town. It was really cool to see all the old buildings and wood piles. We even got a glimpse of the Matterhorn from a different angle. The fog was covering over the top, but it made for a dope picture! Then we went and got some soup for dinner. Funny story time: So John wanted to buy a Swiss Army Knife that was from Switzerland. We went to the store and looked at all the knives. Anyway, while John was buying the knife I was looking at one of the knives on display. (All of the knives they sell were on display...) I was trying to close it up and I guess I pushed on the wrong end of the knife and totally cut my finger! I asked the lady at the front desk if she had a tissue I could have cause I was bleeding. She said yes we have one. She then pulled out a First Aid Kit! She gets me a tissue and a band aid. She told me it was not the first time this had happened! I was super embarrassed. As we were leaving, she handed me another tissue cause she could see it was bleeding more than normal. I still have a scar on my finger. Of course John wanted to take a picture of it bleeding, so you'll see in one of the pics some blood that was caused by me by being stupid. Okay, glad to get that off my chest. We would love to go back to Switzerland in the summer when it's not to stinkin' cold! What a great experience to go to Switzerland! We felt really lucky to go there. Danke Schon Zermatt!

The one and only church they have. Their pride and joy I hear. (from my mom I heard...)

Okay so I know there are a lot of this thing they call the Matterhorn, but come on- it's so rad!

I wish you could see just how cold it really was. That is not possible. Unless there were snow or something else!

I threw this one in there because I wanted to show you their cars. They are all mini size.

The old part of town...

This is where "Heidi's" Great Grandfather used to live.

This is a slide that people can go down. No I just made that up.

My brother asked us if we were staying at Hotel Romantica and we thought he was joking. Then we saw the actual hotel. We got a pic in front of it for him!

Look at this little house way up there on the mountain! Crazy!

They do have pumpkins in Zermatt. Happy Late Halloween from the folks of Zermatt.

Inside the church.

My cute mom warming her hands on her delicious hot soup.

My bloody cut and tissue. Okay, so it doesn't look that bad.

Zermatt

The next day we left early on a train to Visp, Switzerland. The only problem was, was that we didn't get off in time and missed our stop in Visp! We had to go an extra 20 miles to the next stop. We then got on the next train back to Visp, then we waited until the train to Zermatt got there. Visp was so breathtaking! It was also very FREEZING!!! We were not prepared with warm enough clothes to go to Switzerland. Oops! What were we thinking? I had to borrow John's big snowboard coat! Thank goodness he had that I could wear. Even though I looked ridiculous in it! : ) We had to get on a special train that went all the way up the mountain to Zermatt. It was such a beautiful, scenic journey up the mountain. Switzerland is just how you'd picture it! Straight out of the movie Heidi. Most of the pics I'm posting were taken by John through our train window, so some of them don't look very good. We got up to Zermatt and trekked to our hostel. Let me tell you this hostel was pretty janky! Luckily we got a shared room with my mom and dad. All the showers were in the basement and it was freezing down in the basement. It was so inconvenient! Oh well. It was a good price for Switzerland, and it was the only place we could find, and the only place we stayed that had internet! We were so excited because the Swiss Franc is valued about the same as the U.S. dollar. Well come to find out that everything in Switzerland was like 3 times the price we're used to paying! HAHA. That night the only place we could bring ourselves to eat at was McDonalds! Too funny! The average price of a meal there was about 16 francs! Did I mention up in the mountains they speak German? In other parts of Switzerland they speak French. Then we saw what we came there to see: The Matterhorn! It was so cool to see it. P.S. It's much cooler than the one at Disneyland! It was a cool, cold first day in Zermatt!

I was immediately freezing! On goes the coat over my jacket!

Look at this backdrop!!! It was just gorgeous!

Here is a picture of the cork water bottle plug! HAHA...

They had a map of Zermatt on the train ride.

This is what our train looked like.

Most of the roofs were slate rocks. It looked rad. They all had pretty flower boxes in them.

A waterfall...

ALL HAIL THE SWISS!!!

Another pretty waterfall.

This is NOT the Matterhorn.

Inside the janky hostel.

Zermatt is a ski town, so it kind of reminded me of Park City, Utah. (But only a little...)

Checking my emails on the janky old skool computer.

THE MATTERHORN! BOO YAH!

This picture is for Debbie! She loved Raclettes when she went there a long time ago.