Wednesday August 8th, 2oo7

Wednesay August 8th, 2007
7:41pm Ovrannaz, Switzerland Time
11:41am Saskatoon Time

We followed our Polish friends to Montigny to see a castle. We parked at the bottom and had to walk up and up and up. I am so out of shape. The Polish father was like "you're like Americans. They have to drive everywhere, we know what they're like". Dad whispers to me, "lets show them we're not American". There were cemented paths to the castle, but there were shortcuts straight up the hills that the Polish father and the Polish son decided to take to show off. So dad and I joined them. My flip flops were too slippery, so I went up the mud barefoot. I went through a patch of poison ivy, and burnt my legs. FINALLY we got to the top of the damn hill where the castle was. It was really sweet. There were catapolts, and a cliff thing, and it was pretty neat. We couldnt go inside though which kinda sucked. We looked in the keyholes, and tried to break into a window, but failed. Then the Polish people went to France to see where the Olympic games were held, but it started to rain, so we decided to drive to Aigle to see another castle. It was raining really hard, so we went to the grocery store. We bought lots of chocolate, and lots of different kinds of beer, plus of course yummy food. There was the CUTEST old lady there that was so tiny, and asked Siri to get someting for her off a top shelf, and I wanted to adopt her. Once we were done at the store, we headed to the castle. This castle was so SWEET!! We went up a winding staircase up the stone turret. There were 78 stairs, and 6 different floors. Each floor had a different purpose, and the attick was a torture chamber. There was a dungeon going under the turret, but it was blocked off (thank goodness. it was so dark and creeeeepy). The fourth floor had a secret passageway to a dining hall. There were wine cellars, and servant quarters, and weird passageways that led to small little rooms, and up to rooms full of windows. We went up this dark passageways that was a skinnyskinny flight of winding stairs, and up at the top there was a little room with little windows on each side. People had carved and written their name in the wall, and we found so many signatures that said in the 1800's. We took a picture of a signature from 1855. It was thundering and lightning out, and it was really dark in the passageway we were in. Mom hid in the shadows, and jumped out at us. We screamed so loud, and Shelby told her that made up for all the times we scared her. Then Shelby and dad both smacked their heads on a doorframe at the same time. Basically, it was a pretty sweet castle. It was raining, so we had to run to our car. We came back to Ovronnaz, up the winding roads in the rain. I counted and there are 24 switch-back turns (hairpin turns? When you have to basically make a 360 degree turn to climb the next steep part of the road). Its freaky deaky. Ovrannaz is right in the cloud. Siri and I made supper, and now we're about to play kaiser. Im getting yelled at to come play, so ill talk to you later! ITALY TOMORROW!!