OMG are we sore. We went hiking today. A couple of things you need to know: 1. The Alps are steep. Really steep. There is the lake, a road, the train station and then it goes up. STRAIGHT UP. We took the world's steepest train a part of the way up, and then we hiked. It was a beautiful start of the day. The only bad thing is that we climbed into the clouds and visibility was limited. We were unable to see the Matterhorn (the one in Switzerland, not the one at Disneyland). Still a great hike up. 2. Getting down was another story. Tennis shoes were not made for steep downhills. It was down, down, down, for 5,000 vertical feet, with nary a break. Our knees, our hips, our feet are killing us. When
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