Chocolate and Alps

So about a month ago I went to Geneva, Switzerland! I absolutely love Switzerland! The alps are the most beautiful landscape on this earth in my opinion.  I went with two friends and we traveled SwissAir and stayed in a nice hotel for 2 days in Geneva.  If you ever have the chance, travel SwissAir. My flights to and from were truly the best flights of my life (minus a little hiccup on the way home which I'll talk about later)! They provided us with a wonderful meal both ways- the way there a yummy pizza hot pocket thing, and the way back a great chocolate filled breakfast croissant. They then came around with Swiss chocolate for everyone! It was a very smooth and enjoyable flight!

this is the view from the cable car on our way up the mountain

i got hot walking up the mountain in the snow... i'm my dad's daughter! the view from the top was unbelievable beautiful and we just got to hang out in the snow and enjoy!

We arrived late in Geneva, and were welcomed nicely by the people at the airport. We got free transportation to our hotel and got a good night's sleep! Our hotel was quite fancy (expensive, but the cheapest option in Geneva). It was so nice to be in a comfy quiet hotel rather than a hostel for the trip. Everything was so expensive in Geneva, luckily we knew that before going so we came prepared. We packed a lot of fruit and packaged croissants to eat throughout the day, and allowed ourselves one meal out each day. We paid 30 Euro for one meal! Crazy! We had planned on going night sledding with fondue while in Switzerland, but we found out the place was actually 6 hours away from Geneva, so we had to change our plans. We decided to climb a mountain in Geneva instead! We took a cable car up to the top of Mont Saleve. We hiked through a path and found a lovely field full of snow where we sat and ate some fruit and enjoyed the nature. we then slid back down the trail back to the cable car.

Next we walked around Geneva and TONS of chocolate. You can't even imagine the deliciousness of Swiss dark chocolate and their truffles!! My boots were sopping wet from walking through the snow so I had to by a new pair of of expensive boots taht were on sale for 10 Euro... oh darn! We found an amazing toy story and literally walked through it playing with toys for at least an hour! My favorite was the Bop-It in French! Then we went to dinner and more shopping. We planned on walking around more, but everything closed at 8pm! so we bought a deck of cards, a bottle of wine, and headed back to our hotel for a relaxing evening. We actually just ended up watching a movie.

Bop-it  in French... High "hi!" (hope my family gets the joke:))

the awesome famous fountain in Geneva

The next day we wandered around some more and spent a lot of time at the giant famous fountain! We also went to teh Patek Phillipe museum. Patek Phillipe is a watchmaker, so we learned all about watches and saw thousands of the most beautiful jewels and watches of famous people! Then we rode the public bus for over an hour because we were tired... It was actually a good way to sight see! Then we met up with a couple people and had a nice dinner! We of course also ate a lot more chocolate and bought Swiss Army Knives and my friend bought a Swiss watch!

Now for the little hiccup of the trip. We slept in the airport which was fine for me because I sleep anywhere. As we were checking in to our flight I wasn't able to print my boarding pass for some reason. The attendant was also having issues. We finally figured out I was a dumbass and booked my return flight for March instead of February... Tickets are way more expensive the day of the flight... So after a hysterical phone call to my parents and major freaking out, I finally caved and spent the money to return on the same flight as my friends. The alternative was to wait in the airport for a day by myself and fly back to Madrid Monday morning for half the price. Moral of the story is don't be a dumbass like me and waste hundreds of dollars by booking your flight for the wrong day. It's finally been long enough that I can make fun of myself for my stupidity... kind of... After the most wonderful sunrise I've ever seen on the flight we arrived back in Madrid safely! I slept all day and returned to normal life here in Madrid! It was a fabulous weekend and just enhanced my love for Switzerland even more!!