Monday, March 22, 2010

Driving to Paradise...1 country at a time

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been having to much fun. So we left France Friday morning(The 12th of March) very early(around 5:00) We drove for about an hour and a half and stopped at a bakery to get some breaky. We had our baguettes and croissants and were on our way. It was nice having my laptop because I had Downloaded movies and could watch them without needing the Internet. So Through out the trip I watched the Hurt Locker(Great Movie) and the first season of Even Stevens(a show I watched when I was younger. If your wondering it is still funny)We went up and down many mountains through out the day and at around 10:00 am we stopped again. This time in Albertville(The host of the 1992 Winter Olympics) We walked around downtown but there was much so we left. We did drive through the Olympic Village. That was really cool. We kept driving until we got to a place Called Chamonix. It was a a really ski city nestled between 2 big mountains. This is where we had lunch. My dad got a sandwich, my mom got a sandwich, my sister had some ravioli from a fast food ravioli place and I had a chicken wrap from McDonald's...also we had to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then we kept going crossing into Switzerland. We drove for a while and ended up in the German speaking side of Switzerland. From there on it has been all German. We kept going and I was able to get some beautiful pictures of the mountains. It was very cool. We kept going and drove for quiet awhile till we got to where we were going to stay for the night:Interlanken. It was a very beautiful town. As usuall we walked around got supper. We kept walking and went by a Hooters(I was bummed that we couldn't go) We then walked around in the park in front of the Casino then walked back to the hotel. We got up early again and kept going. We didn't do much stopping this time. We went through Liechtenstein and then into Austria. Once in Austria we stopped at a grocery store for breakfast. I was lucky to find some Cinnamon Toast crunch(My favorite cereal) but when I tried it it turns out they meant the other cinnamon. I swear the Boxes looked the same as in Canada but they were not the same. Yucky yuk. We did find a baguette so I did get breakfast. We also were bummed to find out they had no Orangina. So we got Fanta (an Orange pop kind of drink) It isn't as good as Orangina but it is still all right. We kept driving and ended up in Germany(4 countries in 1 day...we can hardly do 4 provinces in one day in Canada) While in Germany we stopped in Innsbruck for lunch. They had a burger king so we decided to just a quicky lunch. I had there chicken burger which is bread with corn flakes. It was still good. After laughing at all the ausfahrt's and einfahrt's we came across the best one at a gas station. The gas pump handle said Gute Fahrt or Good Fart. I laughed hard at that one. We crossed back in to Austria after that and were able to get up the big mountain to our lodge/ski hill before sun down. The Bad news was that it hadn't completely melted up where we had to get down to our lodge but my mom tried anyways to get the car down. It didn't work so well and she ended up not being able to pull into the drive way and kept sliding down the hill. She tried 3 times to get the car up unsuccessfully before she put the emergency break on 3/4 up the hill and decided to unload there. We got the first 2 suit case out and I was bringing them up the hill when the car started to slide. My dad was kind of behind it and he tried to stop in form going(I guess it is human instinct)it just slid down the hill and into a snow bank. Everyone was fine. But we still had to lug the suit cases up the hill.p

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