Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Chamonix day 3

This morning I woke up and grabbed breakfast with the isralli boys who bought it for me! Yay free breakfast!! nothing special but still nice. After breakfast I headed off to the cable car to make my way up the lapelle d'midi. It was really expensive and I couldn't extend the pass I already bought but it was definately worth it. I took one car up to the mid point and then a second car all the way to the top. On your way up you see a small glacier towards the too and when you get on top of it the small glacier has at least a 30 foot face on it. Also when you are are the mid station and even in town all the mountain around look just huge, but when you get on too of the alp du midi everything looks small. The mountains accross the way look like small hills. It was so amazing. I could stand in France and see Switzerland and Italy from the top. It is such an amazing view of the mountains and the glaciers that are all around. When I got there I went from observation deck to observation deck just looking around. It was freezing up there also!! About 85 degrees in town and goosebump degree up top. I stayed and looked around for about 3 hours! So it turned out to be
A good thing that I missed the cable car yesterday. Also while I was up there I figured out what all the people had all of their equipment for... People were coming out of every oraface of the mountain!! Rock climbers repelled down a 150 Ft face and then climbed back up it. People were climbing on another really tall rock near an observation deck. People were coming up from the rocks with cramp ons on and then climbing up a ladder to an obsevation deck. And then there were the people actually cloming mont blanc. I couldn't see them on the summit but the were definately coming down from it. Tiny tiny black dots in groups of 3s and 5s coming down and winding around to where we were standing. Wow is all I have to say. The mountaineers were tearing apart that mountain!!! I'm impressed. On one of the decks I met a guy from Canada who was also travelling alone but in Europe for a lot longer time. He is going to the tour tomorrow with some friends so I might try and meet up with him, although it's a big course and after what happened last night I am staying in a private room from now on haha. I'll get into that later though. I talked to dan for about an hour and then we went our separate ways. I ended up watching some climbers for a while until Frostbite was about to set in and then I made my descent down the mountain. As soon as I got down I went and grabbed lunch and headed back to my hostel. I was debating between going to Lyon or not but after talking to my mom decided not to 8 hours of travel for 6 hours of a visit. Not worth it. So now I had a little bit before I could check back in so I went for a nice walk around town. Found the spot where the world climbing championships are going to be held and watched them practice for a bit. Wow do they have nice bodies!!! Haha. After I checked in I went for another stroll and then came back and found the israli boys an went to dinner with them. My first steak in Europe! Food good, service terrible. That's ok though, it was nice to have company. After dinner we tried to find a nightlife in town. Unsucessful. So we went back to our bar at the hostel. I went into my room and got sucked into a convo with my new roomates. 2 brothers a little older than me. Seemed really nice. Then around 12:30 I went to bed. Around 1:30 I was woken up to the boy who was sleeping below me standing right next to me. I was on the top bunk and he on the bottom. He had climbed up my ladder and I have NO idea what his intensions were. Glad I didn't find out. I woke up and I was facing away from him and I turned my head around to see him hovering over me inches from my face and my first reaction was "whoa!!" and then he quickly climbed back down the ladder and got into bed. The more I thought about it the more freaked out I got so I grabbed my phone and went to the bathroom. On my way downstairs I ran into a nice couple and asked them if they had an extra bed in their room. They didn't but he offered to take my matress off my bed and move it into their room and let me sleep on the floor. So that's what I did. So creepy! So so so so creepy! He acted so guilty in the morning too. Wouldn't even open his eyes and look at me. So the rest of that night was a little sketchy. Girls screaming outside, boys yelling. But I was safe!!  

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