Thunersee Lake Cruise and Adelboden

Finally it is Monday, we can go grocery shopping! Nope today is some holiday here and grocery stores are still closed!

Today we went to the train station and got our Swiss Pass which will allow us to have unlimited train/bus travel in all of Switzerland. Lucky for us there is a 2 for 1 special until the end of the month that saved us a bunch of money and with the pass, Ally will be free. There is exception for the mountain top trains for us but we will get a 50% discount on those. When I added up our costs without the pass we would about break even with the pass but having the pass means no ticket counters and we can hop on and off any time. For our first adventure we wanted to go to Adelboden which is where the very first Girl Scout Chalet was built and is a Girl Scout World Centre. Ally was very excited to visit it to get a special pin and patch. But first we decided to get there the scenic way. First we hopped onto a cruise boat to go from Interlaken West to the lakeside town of Spiez. The views were breathtaking.

 Eric enjoying his cup of hot chocolate

 My beautiful daughter with her hot chocolate mustache

 The paragliders are a treat to watch. We can see them appear from many of the mountain tops a couple times an hour.

We were 2/3rd the way through our cruise when they came through to check tickets. The guy informed us that where we were sitting was actually for first class so we would need to move. We never saw any signs. On the way down we saw a little sign that said: 1.Klasse. I guess if I spoke German I would know that it meant 1st Class. The sign was on the wall opposite from where we face when we enter the stair well. They didn't make a big deal about it. We just went down to the second level for the rest of the cruise. We arrived in the town of Spiez and had about a 25 min walk to the train station. We decided not to pay for the mini-tram, little did we know it was uphill the whole way, but it still had beautiful views.

Then we took a train to the town of Frutigen where we hopped on a bus to Adelboden. From the bus stop we had a 20 minute walk uphill again with breathtaking views.

 We love the cows and their bells on! It makes me wonder if they ever get sick of the ringing. Just chewing makes the bell ring.

We had a another great day!