Day 54: Water Day in Brigerbad!! (July 7th):

     These mountains are amazing! Huge. The very top ones were covered in snow glaciers with these awesome waterfalls.

  Wow! Food is expensive in Switzerland! Top Ramen  is 1.70 Swiss francs (pretty equal to the dollar) for one little packet! A 20 piece McNuggets is $46.00! Hot dogs at a little stand were $8 each! Even gas is $8 a gallon!

  

    Today, we decide to go South of Interlaaken to Brigerbad, where there is Europe’s longest thermal waterslide. We have to get on a train, where the road ends, it doesn’t connect to the lower part of the country.

 Once we get to the water park, we find a big rock to jump off of, lots of grass (a nice break from sand), and a lazy river with some crazy strong currents. All the water is warm and the water park is lined with beautiful flowers.

       We stay all day at the park until it closes at 7:00pm. It is a wonderfully relaxing day.

   Then we decide to drive home another way that we had seen earlier on Google maps. Genie keeps telling us to turn around and go back the way we came from, but we keep going.  It gets dark. We are on the top of a mountain pass. Genie is still telling us to turn around. We stop for directions at the Belvedere hotel, an ancient hotel on the very top of a mountain pass. The owner googles us directions (even at the top of the world there is internet) and we are back on our way. Finally, at the top of the last pass, Grimsel pass, Genie tells us to go towards home, instead of turning around and going all the way back.

   We drive through Meiringen, where two huge waterfalls are lit up at night. We finally make it home around 11:00pm.