Thursday--March 18th

So this morning we got up a little later. We got out of the hostel by 10:00 am after trying to be quiet for the other guest in our hostel room. We were quiet until 8:30 and I think that is pretty nice (Beth)...

We went back up the crazy hill... WOW... soooooooo very steep!!! (We saw a sign that showed it was between 12-15% grade in most places! And we thought the summit to Laramie was bad with a 5% grade!)

We went back so that we could look at the huge Cathedral at the top of the city. The Cathedral was built around 1300, it was huge inside with absolutely beautiful stainglass windows. We were disapoited that we could not read any of the information on the posters around the church because they were all in French... Oh well.

After that we walked down a huge hill that we just climed to the metro station below. From that metro we went down to the water (Lake Geneva) to check out the port city of Ouchy (pronouced oh-she... but looks like ouch! i hurt myself... hehe!) It was so cute! We walked along the shore in awe of the scene before us. We walked to the Olympic Museum. The gardens were so nice in front of the museum along with fountians making it a great precurser to the great muesuem at the top of yet another hill.

In the museum we were able to see up close all of the torches, and medals from each of the games. Along with Grecean artifacts, and other game memorablila. We also saw a few short movies about the spirit of the games, etc...

After the museum we walked back along the water and found the perfect place for some lunch... Crepes!!!! :)  I had a bacon and cheese crepe while my mom had a crepe with spinich and cheese. They were soooooooo yummy!

We took the metro up the side of the city again to our hostel were we then quicky collected our bags before hitching a train to Geneva Airport. We got there too early but we hung out and grabbed some snacks before our flight. We flew out of Geneva at 7:05 this evening and we arrived to our hoste (lost the paper with the address and had mom worried that I wasn't going to find it without an address, thank goodness i had checked it out on google maps weeks before and it somehow stuck in my head!!!) Our room is called the Zoo or (Artis in Dutch).

I am glad my mom finally made some new friends on the plane. So far she had not been talking to many people because of the huge language difference. But finally some nice Dutch guys visited with us the entire time on our flight! :) One was a personal buttler for a Dutch couple who live in Geneva while the other was a student at a conservatory in Switzerland for classical trombone.

The computer here is not able to download pictures on to the blog either but we have lots of good ones to show you all!

We will update on Saturday night because after a day in Amsterdam we will take a night train back to Odense Friday night. Woooooot! Haha!

Have a great rest of your day we are headed up to bed.