Train: 10:37 Zurich-Churr; Churr-St. Moritz
Needless to say, we did some more sleeping in in Zurich, and we also got a nice little breakfast at the train station (we did this a few times.)
On our train ride to St. Moritz, we had to change trains in Churr, now Dad had said that we had about 2 hours or so until we got into Churr, so we unpacked our stuff and relaxed a little (I had my camera battery charging in an outlet). Now, the thing about train transfers is they often ended up being only about 5 minutes long, so we knew that we would have to get off the train and more or less rush to the next one. About an hour into the train ride, we pull up to a stop and Jace looks out the window and says "are we at Churr?" Dad is saying, "No, no way, that's not possible" But low and behold, we are at Churr!! So we all grab our miscellaneous items (forget about packing) and run for the train. We made it, and had a good laugh, but unfortunately when we got into St. Moritz I noticed that I had left my handmade neck warmer from Aunt Diane on the previous train......
The train rides were gave us some beautiful scenery (so much snow!!!) and also a little taste as to what the next day's Glacier Express train held in store for us.
St. Moritz was small, basically just a handful of hotels and restaurants to support the skiers who venture out on the alps. When we were on the train, we noticed a group of people with sleds getting on at one stop, and then a sled-run with people cruising down it. We wanted to go sledding, so that was priority number one when we got to the hotel. We got our information (and lucky for us, there was night sledding, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to go), ate a late lunch, and took a train a couple of stops back to the sledding run.
Sledding was a blast!! We all had smiles frozen to our faces (and Dad had icicles in his beard).
Not too far out of Zurich
The front of our train rounding the bend
This was me TRYING to sled. We thought that the walking path was the
sledding run (they looked similar) and spend a good 20 minutes trying to
get our sleds to go for more than 20 feet.....The real run was much faster,
and pretty much non-stop!
This was on the actual sledding run - Jace stopped to take a picture. Our
train actually ended up going over that bridge (and this is where we
first saw sledders)
We made it!
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