Gruyeres

Dont' ask me how to say the name of this city: Gruyere. It's supposedly French but everyone that I asked said it some way different. So I'll never know. But I went there while Brett was at work two days ago with Christina, Heinz and Ruth's daughter. It was actually a pretty stressful beginning.

Caroline cancelled that day and Heinz said that I should meet Christina and her friends because they were going to a small town and I had to take the 11:06 train. That's all I knew really. So I got ready and on my way out asked Heinz where I am actually going so I could get a ticket, he said Gruyere but you can't buy tickets to go there the normal way you have to do something special and type it in. Well there wasn't much time from there. I was supposed to meet Christina on track 2 or 3 they didn't know which one at the next train station after I bought my ticket. I went to buy a ticket and something in German kept popping up. Basically it wouldn't let me buy a ticket and my train was coming. So I just went to the next town on the train and went to the train office to talk to someone.

The train ticket lady didn't say anything to me even though she said she spoke English, she gave me a ticket, told me which track to get on, and it was $55! Awesome. But the train came and Christina was supposed to get off to get me but I waited and waited and everyone else was on the train so I had to just get on. I ended up calling Heinz and he called Christina. Long story short we found each other in Bern. It was a little crazy and I wish I knew the language at this point.

But we went to this small little town where the best cheese is made and went to a little medieval town. There was  a pretty cool castle that we walked around. It was a small little town but interesting. We were there a total of maybe 45 minutes and then came back. It was an interesting trip mostly on the train. But I met Anita (Swiss) and Anna (American). Anna served her mission in Germany and was staying with Anita to visit for a month. If you ask me if it was worth $55, I would say maybe not. But it gave me something to do and I made some new friends. It definitely gave me a taste of how it would be all by myself in this place though and I didn't like that feeling so much. But I made it back alive and have some great pictures from it.


Actually in the train station on the way home I was able to see traditional Alphorns, I think that's what they're called, being played. That was pretty cool. Now we are waiting for the next big adventure.