skiing in lenzerheide

chilllin out on saturday, slept in and had a good breakfast, then went out to zurich to walk around and see what was up. pretty cloudy and gloomy day, but made the best of it really. went to the zurich design museum where there was a small exhibit of 'formless furniture' basically just a bunch of chairs - but pretty cool nonetheless. walked around zurich hardbrucke for awhile, stopped in a cool store and also went to the freitag store. they make bags out of truck tarps and seat belts and stuff like that, the store itself is like 6 train containers stacked on top of each other so it's pretty cool - thinking about getting a bag but they are expensive. i found this vietnamese restaurant in zurich on the internet, so for dinner we headed over there to see what was happening. haha, for 18 chf the noodles better have been good. pretty legit in any case but obviously nothing like at home. it was good to have though after 9 months or something like that. didn't do too much else that night except watch iron man again (i'm gonna build an iron man suit) and went to sleep to go skiing the next day.

caught the 7 o'clock train to go to lenzerheide, about 2.5 hours away. it had just snowed for a couple days before so there was a bunch of fresh light powder. this place is pretty cool because you start at one side of the mountain, and then take the innumerable lifts all around the place, through villages, past chalets and people's driveways, until you've gone in a big circle, all the while exploring and traversing to find all the powder stashes. had one good faceplant from trying to absorb what seemed like small bumps rather than skiing them. sunny weather until about 3 pm when it got so foggy on the one side of the mountain that i could barely see the piste markers. crazy and a bit terrifying, but an adventure and overall a great day of skiing. and plus with the half price train card it was half price for all the food at the lodges! pretty cool. a pretty quick train ride home and it was perfect to sit and relax for the rest of the night.

so far i've gone about 11 or 12 times and skiing is awesome, got one more ski weekend planned, and maybe another one or two days, but the experience has been great. the hills here a bit different than at home, but skiing is more or less the same the world around. the chalets were nice, the apres ski was really cool, the gondolas a bit ridiculous, the queues in the lift lines anything but polite and orderly, the snow is great at times, when the sun comes out it's beautiful. really glad that i got to experience this - even when it's icy and cloudy and there are 5000 people jammed into a sardine can gondola, i just remember that in another life i probably would not be skiing in the alps. good times all around.