Most important fact learned this week: Sr. Carrie Ann is a brown belt in karate and could totally kick our ass.
Moving on: we only had a two day weekend so a lot of people decided to stay back in Gaming. Friday night a group of us made dinner (we did not want to eat pork in the mensa again.) After dinner, we watched Roman Holiday before we got ice cream and headed up the hill to go stargazing. It was a little cloudy, but we still saw a few shooting stars, and we only headed in because we had started to lose feeling in our fingers and toes.
Saturday we had made plans to go hike Book Mountain (at the top is a book that everyone who makes it all the way up signs.) Becca had some grand plan to get up by 8:30 to eat breakfast; needless to say this did not happen. We got up only because there was a knock on our door asking if we still wanted to go hiking. We did, so we rolled out of bed and headed to the creek to jump in and wake ourselves up courtesy of the freezing cold water. A family saw us heading into the creek, and stopped on the bridge to watch us, so I took a bow for them. Sr. Joan Paul came over and watched us jump, and then we took a third jump just for good measure. Now that our senses were shocked awake, we got ready for the hike and rounded up people to go. Of course we had to stop at spar to get some brie and bread, and milka for lunch at the top, but after that we were on our way.
This mountain is way steep. I was under the impression that it went back and forth between steepness and flatness…nope it is pretty much straight up. We made it to the first cross after about 20 minutes, and took a photo break, before realizing this was not the top and we needed to keep going. The rest of the way took about an hour and a half of grueling work up steepness that was not made for my hobbit legs. But we made it =) and just to get a little higher, we climbed the radio tower- (Which is completely illegal and which they tell us not to climb,
but I'm sure practically everyone does.
Hopefully I don’t ruin any future political career by posting this,
but since mom is probably one of the few reading this, I think I’m safe)
-from the top of the radio tower, you could see all the surrounding towns, and mountains. I would have stayed up there longer had it not been so cold that high up and had the tower not been shaking in the wind.
We ate lunch and talked for a long while, during which an Austrian woman came bounding up (yes bounding, not huffing and puffing and stretching little legs like we were), signed the book and immediately turned and ran back down. We tried to decipher her name from the book, but we couldn’t so I named her Braun Hilda, (Braun Hilda the beast who climbs Everest with not even a walking stick.) When we finally headed down, we ran almost the whole way in true Braun Hilda fashion; this included humming the Indiana Jones theme song. Twice I nearly slid down the mountain when the edge of the trail gave way, but besides that we all got down just fine and in record Braun Hilda time.
After the hike we had decided to walk to the Kebab stand a little while down the road, unfortunately when we got there it was closed-what luck. We ended up eating in the mensa (sad reality compared to the kebabs.)
Quote of the week is from Fr. Ron. “I hope you get all A+s in your classes, and that you smile all day long, and I hope you get dessert.” Just for him, I ate dessert at every meal =)
Leaving Thursday night for Poland!
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