Via ferrata and SATC weekend :)

So nothing really too amazing about this past week.  Evenings tend to be my not-so-great-feeling times so poor Paul doesn't really get to see my good times during the week.  :(

Saturday, Paul went on a via ferrata (kinda like a cross between rock climbing and a ropes course in hiking gear) and left me for the day.  Luckily, Rachel (from Paul's group) wasn't going so she had an awesome idea of going to see Sex and the City 2!  The night before I woke up around 3am for a bathroom break and snack and when Paul left around 6:30 I had another snack which put me to sleep until 10!  I was so shocked I was able to sleep that late!  But anyways, I hurried and got ready, met Rachel at her place, we left and bought our tickets (19 bucks each!-omg), ate yummmmmmmmmmy burgers at an English Pub (I even got lemonade!!) and saw the movie.  We made sure to find a showing that spoke English but it still had German and French subtitles.  Movies here have intermissions so all of a sudden it shuts off and the lights come back on and most people go out and get a snack.  We got ice cream.  :)  I came home and skyped Amy which definitely needs to happen more often and by then Paul was home.  This is what he did:

They went to the town of Engelberg which part of the route involved taking the cogwheeled train (a train that rides like a train until it clamps on to a center track and pulls itself up a very inclined track). Then they took a Brunni cable car to Ristis and hiked from there to the via ferrata (or klettersteig in German).  The route was easy with an easy climb and 2 short bridges where you basically walked on a cable holding on to other cables.  They hiked down, had lunch, and then some of them attempted the difficult route but it started raining so they came down.  Then it was a beautiful scenic hike back down to Engelberg through cow pastures and tons of wildflowers- a very Swiss looking hike.  They hung out in the town while waiting for the train and made the 2 hour trip home.

I was actually pretty disappointed that I couldn't go.  Before we left the states, we both bought harnesses (mine is even purple!) because this sounded fun and not too much for me to handle.  But we realized that me wearing a harness with the possibility of being jerked around if I fell would not be a good idea at this point.  :(  Anyways, Paul took the only pictures for the weekend.  So here they are: