A Switzerland To-Do List

• play on a playground lakeside in the Alps (perhaps in Spiez?)
• eat at Hooter's
• enjoy chocolate fondue at Des Alpes in Interlaken
• ski in the Alps
• have curb side service to the Alpin Center, thanks Hieny (we thought he was Henry, haha)
• touch a glacier
• witness a mini-avalanche
• try cheese fondue
• order the meat fondue regardless of the price
• ride a train not knowing where it is headed
• stumble upon a genocide demonstration at the United Nations
• swing on a tire swing (by Lake Geneva)
• "chase the mountains" : running from opposite sides of the train in order to get the best view of the Alps
• bust your butt on alpine snow
• get lightheaded from being up so high
• eat m&ms in a glacier (and when you accidentally drop one it breaks in two because it is so cold)
• stay at the Happy Inn
• befriend a Swiss local (but never learn his name)
• buy weak drinks for lots of money (learn from this experience and don't do it again)
• take over 700 photos
• fall in love with a sandwich shop (the Sandwich Bar)
• eat a bratwurst
• watch a Carnaval parade
• catch fruit thrown from floats
• buy or eat chocolate slabs or truffles everyday
• witness a drug deal
• see the top 2 most beautiful places of your life
• wear sunglasses
• visit a chateaux.....preferably on a lake (Chateaux Chillon)
• run to catch the next train
• make a snow angel in a snow drift
• see a dog on a train, and not a tiny dog, but a big one
• refer to the people you meet as homegirl and homeboy
• experience the most beautiful, unique, stunning jewelry on the planet and talk to a man so passionate in his work (Ibex Gallery, Interlaken)
• go to a city without any prior planning....and make it happen!
• use the most fabulous interactive 3-D map (of switzerland, Luzern)
• forego previous plans and sleep-in
• get dressed up for a dessert date, then go to Hooter's after ( :P )
• wonder why it appears no one else needs to pop their ears from the tremendous pressure of altitude change