mt. rigi

One of the great things about being in town for a little while is that I had the time to go hiking, which I just love. Daniela decided to come along for the fun too. We left a little after 7AM and after about an hour and a half on the train and bus, we made it to the bottom of Mt. Rigi, where we then took the gondola up to one point on the mountain. This gondola line seemed to go way to long without any supporting posts (my mom would have never been able to handle it), but it was fine.

The hike took about 4.5 hours with a stop for our packed lunch. The views were amazing. I think we went about 10 miles.

Since we are in Switzerland, there were of course many cows along our path. Sometimes I couldn't believe how high up the cows were on the mountain and on such steep ridges. Since we saw so many, and they were right along our path, I decided I wanted to pet a cow - just one of those random things I think of. Daniela went first and the cow loved her.

When I tried, the cow ran away. I was so sad. We think my bright green shirt might have scared him off.

Luckily there were many more cows to come. At one point a herd of cattle covered our trail.

I took this opportunity to find a friendly one and she let me pet her.

We took a smaller gondola down that only held 4 people.

We ended on the shores of Lake Lucerne. It was such a beautiful day and there were plenty of sailboats out. We were pretty hot so we dipped our feet in the lake.

We stopped for refreshments and sat by the lake before catching the train back (which only took an hour because of where we'd hiked to).

Beautiful views and hiking, I couldn't have been happier!