swiss stuff

arrived in geneva this past sunday night and threw our stuff down and headed for a night spot. it had been a stressful past couple of hours nearly missing planes and trying to get to the airport in barcelona via the metro. i notice a common trend of nearly missing our flights, something we are trying to get better at. anyway

we got to geneva and went to this pub flanagans that was pretty cool. we ended up staying for a while watching some soccer matches and drinking pints of 1664. it was a neat place.. lots of americans which was kind of funny. a sunday night, in switzerland, at an irish bar nonetheless.

next morning we walked around geneva trying to find something cool about this boring place. there are a lot of watches, shit tons of swiss army knives and lots of chocolate.. the latter being the only one i really cared about. let me say that not only did i manage to enjoy the chocolate, i completely overate it and managed to polish off two of those giant bars on wednesday.

everything is quite expensive in switzerland, and we knew we wanted to ski so we kind of cut corners in other areas. aka the only thing i ate whilst in geneva was granola and chocolate... and one croissant.

skiing in the alps was awesome, really had a great time iwth that. the conditions were excellent, fresh snow abundant. we skiied gyron, near villars. it did in fact cost an arm and a leg, but it was worth every penny. i will save the story for my arrival home about nate and i getting off the wrong stop on the way up the mountain and had to trek through the goddamn alps to get to the ski area. and the story about me stopping the entire chair lift only because i didnt put the stupid guard bar down on my chair wsa pretty funny. i had people yellng like hell at me in french... i had no clue.

we are now in rome, just really getting in to it. saw the coliseum-- only form the outside that is but it was brilliant. so enormous... and so old. so much history there. really cool.

our buddies jeff and nick from back home are now joining us for portions of the last leg of the trip. they should be meeting us here at the hostel pretty quick. will be good to hang out with them and get some new folks in the loop.

ill update more about rome, and what was our first night here (last nights expedition getting here) later.