5/21/2010
This weekend marked the first weekend available to travel freely around Europe! It became an amazingly beautiful weekend getaway in the Swiss Alps. Many things didn’t go as planned, but everything turned out for the best. After a quick two hour class in the morning in which each group shared their marketing product idea (our group’s is the Microsoft Surface, but my idea was the rubber/carpet ‘bumper bully’) we were free. After a quick trip home to pack and a stop at the train station to book tickets to Berlin for next weekend we were at the airport (which you don’t have to take shoes off for!). Surprisingly when we got off the plane in Paris, there was a person greeting us to drive us separately across the airport grounds to another terminal to ensure we made our flight! I love Air France; nicer planes, more comfortable and MUCH more space for carry-ons.
Once we got our luggage we had to decide which way to exit. France to the left or Switzerland to the right. It only made sense that since we came in from France that we should just continue out that way since our luggage came in there. After failing to retrieve Swiss Franks from a misleading parking ticket dispenser the man that sat next me on the plane kindly informed us that we had in fact walked back into France and would need to walk back across the terminal to enter into Switzerland. Embarrassing for us all, but didn’t know Geneva was on the border. The nine of us took taxi’s to our hostel with a white haired older lady that was listening to get-up techno music…rather odd. I think our group was simply the blind leading the blind this weekend because we weren’t even walking into the right room and of course Matt unknowingly turned on the lights to the room that we weren’t supposed to be in. After getting the right room and figuring out how to put the sheets together, we looked for food and the only cheap thing was a kebab shop. Amazing lamb sandwich and good fries.
