The town is a small ski town that was originally just a few ski chalets. Then a few more were built, then a few hotels, then ski lifts, and so on. There is a main street with some restaurants and shops, but for the most part, the town looks completely snowed in. It is clearly very expensive to own or vacation there, as there were tons of BMWs and incredibly rich looking people. As we were snowshoeing, we found more houses and restaurants that were completely snowed in and must only be accessible in the summer. I think it would be really cool to go back once the snow has melted and see how different the town looks.
We finally got there at about 11am, rented snowshoes, and then took about a 15 min bus ride to one of the snowshoe trail heads. Steph, Jess, and Ida went off to ski so that left me, David, Aubrey, Ali, and Alex to blaze our way through the snow. After some small adjustments early on, everybody quickly got the hang of basically hiking with clown shoes on.
We hiked/snowshoes for about 1.5 hours up a mountain. Along the way, there were snowed in towns that must only be open for the summer season, incredible views (pictures are up on facebook), and just utter beauty of nature. It was actually pretty warm for a while and the sun was out for most of the hike so it was really nice. After about an hour and a half we turned back and headed down the mountain. By the time we reached the road at the bottom my legs were burning and my feet hurt, but it was definitely worth it.
After, we stopped for a small snack and then caught the bus back into town. We walked around for a bit and eventually found a small restaurant/bar to chill in for a while. Soon the skiers met us and we all had a bit to eat and some drinks, and then we headed out of Les Diablerets around 6pm.
We got back to Nyon earlier than expected so we decided we couldn't go home quite yet. We went to a bar called Les Brasseurs (which roughly translated means the..... i have no idea). Some people started to bail because everybody was pretty tired, but me, David, Steph, and Alex hung around until about 11pm and ordered a few 3 Liter test tube things of beer. They bring you a massive cylinder of beer with its own tap and stand and its pretty cool (see the pictures). At about 11pm David and I headed out and made it back home alive and basically passed out.
This morning there was a ton of commotion at like 8:30am and apparently the Dad of the family came to take Adri and Seb skiing. I met him briefly, and now I'm sitting here not doing much, trying to procrastinate doing work.
Tonight should be interesting - as mentioned before, we're headed into Geneva around 11pm to watch the Superbowl. Because it goes on so late, we are all just going to stay in for the whole night/morning until class. But no worries, it does have an academic side to it, as I think I'm going to do an assignment on the perception and popularity of the Superbowl abroad (its one of our assignments for our culture class) hahaha.
I'll put some pictures up of the weekend below, but they cannot do it justice.
Go Giants!
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