Verbier Switzerland

Verbier, Switzerland, the home of the steepest ski run (Mont Fort), the longest mogul run in the Alps, and the biggest 'chair lift' (not a chair lift by any means, more a human moving machine called 'Le Jumbo')

Theresa and I thought it was time for some more 'rock hoping' and 'sand surfing', but this time is the Swiss Alps. A 7 hour bus ride with the Frankfurt International Ski Club for 2 days of skiing on the 'nonexistent snow' in Verbier, Switzerland.


The weather wasn't the best (minimal amounts of sun, lots and lots of wind (even causing the lift to close for 30 minutes with 5 from our group sitting on it) and very, very flat light for skiing) but the company was great (9 total in our group).

Eric, Theresa, Daniel, Molly, Joe, Mark

Lon, Jessica, Molly, Theresa, Daniel

This is to just show how little snow there is in the Alps this year... We (Theresa and I) are on the gondola going down the mountain... NO SNOW (the sad part is we just past the half way point where there is normally feet and feet of snow.) Sad story for the Alps this year!

Is back in business!!In the t-shirt making business.

But no shirt can be perfect







































Angela, Priscilla, Molly, Lieselot, Shwan

My BIG F A T Greek Birthday

Not my birthday (about 5 months late or 7 months early depending on what way you look at it) but the one and only Greek girl in our exchange program turned 22 yesterday.

Poseidon, God of the Sea, graced us with his presence (actually the name of the resturant) and shared with us in celebrating Anna’s 22nd birthday. With typical Greek food, alcohol, music, and dancing, we all started to become ‘experts’ in Greek culture (well not really).

We had a Greek lesson with what different foods were,

how to drink the Greek alcohol (tasted like black liquorish and the waitress just kept them coming),

learning how to do a bit of Greek dancing (the whole restaurant was dancing with us)

and becoming fluent in Greek (ok, only how to sing Happy Birthday).

(We managed to sing happy birthday is 6 different languages, including Greek!)

Walking



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Wonderland

January 24, 2007

Yesterday I spent about 3 hours typing a blog, and trying to make it just right... yeah, well some how I deleted it. That was my sign to quit for the night, get some sleep (I've been a bit sleep deprived lately) and start again today.

At this current moment it's snowing. Last night when I was walking home I counted about 10 flakes (exciting moment in my life) and was ready right then and there to go skiing, build a snowman or go sledding down the Rumery Luge (the best sledding run in the world). Unfortunately 10 flaks don't make the best ski run, can't build Frosty and would melt if I tried to go sledding. So I opted to sit with a cup of hot apple cider and watch the snow fall...

Last weekend was our Erasmus Ski weekend... Minus the fact that there is NO snow and most ski resorts in Germany aren't even open this year (or right now). But with the hurricane weather (not just hurricane weather, actually hurricane Kyrill graced us with its presence) that we were happening to be experiencing we still decided to go on the 'Ski Weekend.'

Adventures of the Weekend...

1. Trying to stay on 2 feet when walking out side...

2. Hanging out and playing cards at our weekend 'pension.'

3. Seeing fairy tale castles... the real Walt Disney Castle…

(friends from 5 different countries)

4. Throwing a surprise birthday in the 'Pent House Sweet' (actually my room that I shared with Shawn and Priscilla).

(allmost the whole 'gang')

5. Singing tons and tons of karaoke... Go Beatles!!!