Haggis?

So gross!

Maybe it would have had a chance if I didn't know what was in it before I tried some but it was not for me. Matt on the other hand didn't have any issues with it. He says "it sounds gross but wasn't too bad, especially on freshly pulled pork". Yucky. We also tried Irn Bru, their most popular soda. It tastes like Hubba Bubba with carbonation and is bright orange. You need a chaser for this drink... Not the best.

We took a free tour and saw all of the sites. We even went back and had a snack at the cafe where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter and then saw where she got the name Tom Riddle. It was a cemetery... But they treat them more like parks which is weird to us.

Only 4 more days to go... Its flying by so fast!

Tomorrow we leave for London!

Amsterdam

After leaving Switzerland we went to Amsterdam. It is a really pretty city and not what I was expecting. I didn't realize how much water there is and that every single person there owns and rides a bike everywhere. It was fun to walk around... Until we looked up and realized we were in the red light district and there were girls in windows. Needless to say we got out of there and checked out the other sites in Amsterdam... The pubs.

Don't worry... We stayed away from the coffee shops:)

Unfortunately the weather turned and we couldn't find a hostel for the next day so we headed to Brussels. We needed to leave from there to get to the UK anyway so it all worked out.

BELGIUM!
It was a really nice surprise. It wasn't on our original list but it was still really cool. We saw the statue of the little boy peeing... You have to wonder about that artist... And had waffles, fries, and chocolates:)
The next day we headed for the UK!

Grindlewald

My favorite place that we have gone to! It is all about the outdoors. We got there and immediately took a lift up to the top of the mountain. It had the most amazing views. It was seriosuly the most incredible thing I have ever seen. The Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon are definitely my two favorite sites to see.. so far. There are so many things to do there, white water rafting, canyoning, paragliding, hang-gliding, sky diving, bungy jumping... all things that seem awesome but WAY too expensive. We settled for the one thing we could afford. A First Fleiger zipline... it was incredible! After the zipline we hiked for 4 hours down the mountain. It was soo steep and we are definitely both feeling it. I had a minor freakout with the flies. I don't get why they insist on landing on you when you continually swat at them. Go hangout on the cows, they don't mind as much! Anyway... we made it down the mountain. Since we had worked up a huge appetite we made dinner... Mmmmm Pasta... again :)

Switzerland is a place we both want to come back to... when we have money. We both had a moment were we considered just staying there for the rest of the trip. Instead we settled for promising to comeback.

We are now in Paris and are planning on seeing Versailles tomorrow! After seeing the palace and the gardens we are off to Amsterdam!

I hope you are happy Tutu! LOVE you:)

Interlaken

After a day in Lucerne we left for Interlaken. Another amazing place! We were right on the water ( a different but equally awesome lake ) and had great views of teh mountains. We walked all around before going back and making dinner. I don't think I am going to want to eat pasta EVER again after this trip!

Switzerland!

I'm in love with Switzerland! Everything is amazing! The ONLY bad things are the flies (bugs and I don't get along... they love to bite me and I try to kill them), they don't use the Euro, and it is way expensive.

We started off with a day in Lucerne. It was right on the lake and had breath taking views. We borrowed razor scooters from our hostels and went out exploring looking like twelve year olds. It was a lot of fun but we quickly realized it was not going to work on the gravel that pretty much surrounds the area. So we headed back and then once again set off, this time on foot. The town was really neat but the main attraction is definitely the towns view of the Swiss Alps. BEAUTIFUL!

Venice

We woke up early (for what feels like the 1,000th day in a row) and left for Venice. We didn't have much time in Venice but it ended up being perfect. We were able to fit everything in. It's actually a pretty small. It is an awesome place to see but it's also really dirty. We realllly wanted to take a gondola ride but knew they would be insanely expensive. Luckily a family we saw were all thinking the same thing so we went with them and split the cost. It was a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure our captain (?) was wasted but no one got hurt so it's all good. After seeing almost everything we headed for the Jewish Ghetto. We saw a little restaurant along the way and stopped for dinner. We ended up to this 70 year old couple from Cornwall, UK who have been married for 51 years and have traveled pretty much everywhere on the planet. They were awesome to talk to. We ended up talking for so long that we had to abandon the 'to and head back to the hostel.

I really enjoyed Venice but I wouldn't want to stay there longer than two or three days.

Pompeii

The reason we packed so much into one day was so that we could make a day trip to Pompei. It is a place that I have always been facinated with and thought it would be really cool.... Wrong. So many of the people we were with LOVED it. Matt and I... Not so much. We paid the 10 Euros to have the audio guide so that we would know what we were looking at but it was a huge waste of money. They had numbers posted that didnt match what you were looking at and everyone was walking around asking each other what they were doing wrong. We also didnt realize just how HUGE it is. I thought it was just a tiny village... nope.

I was so annoyed with wasting that money that I said something to the lady who rented them to us. She basically said we were supposed to get a map but they ran out... complain to this number. LAME!