I Finally Understand Why They Put Those Wavy Stink Lines Over Cheese in Cartoons.

Ok, we got back from the St. Bernard's Hospice just an hour or so ago. It was actually really nice getting away from all the iPod's and computers and really not have to worry about anything. The trek up there was fun, the first two-thirds were hiked up the road and the last third was done with snowshoes. It is a requirement of the hospice that anyone who is to stay the night there has to make a pilgrimage, otherwise they'll just feed you and send you on your way. We got up there and we were soaked from the light rain that constantly fell as we were going up. So we went to our rooms to change and pulled our clothes out of our backpacks to find that in many cases they were more wet than the clothes we had on. Overall things were pretty open. Thursday morning a snowshoe-hike was organized for any who wanted to go (including Whit and I) and we went into Italy, a 5 minute walk from the monastery and went about half way up this mountain. I'll post more pictures of that later. It was really crazy because basically the whole time in Switzerland it was incredibly foggy, but as soon as we crossed the border it cleared right up.

We did have a couple assignments while we were there, just a simple writing assignment and a requirement to do a couple drawings but aside from that we relaxed a lot, ate tons of incredibly delicious food (including this cheese that tasted fantastic in soup but smelled like old gym socks), and heard one girl from our group give us some private violin performances a couple times. Anywho, I've got to get off and give Whit a chance to use the computer before dinner.