Europe - day 8

This day was supposed to be one of our most scenic.  We planned to see the Interlaken area and take a cogwheel train to the top of Jungfraujoch (the "Top of Europe") - but it was rainy...  the webcam at the top showed nothing but white.  We decided not to pay $200 to see clouds.  What we did see instead was  Trummelbach Falls, which were pretty amazing - glacier waterfalls inside a mountain.  We took a lift inside the mountain and then walked through the tunnels and out onto the platforms to see the falls twisting and rushing through the rocks.  Pretty cool.

We weren't sure what else to do - we did get some peeks at the peaks. 

By lunchtime it was drizzly and yucky and you couldn't see anything, so I took pictures of wildflowers and birds and of Staubbach Falls.  And we ate.  Since we weren't spending $$ on the cable car rides, we figured we could spend $45 for lunch and dessert.  We tried Rosti, which is like hashbrowns with cheese.  This dish had a fried egg on top as well.  It was pretty good, and it felt good to have food in my tummy, since we'd mostly been scrimping on meals.    

  

It was still cloudy in the afternoon, so we decided to take a boat ride.  Turned out to be a really relaxing thing to do (and it was free, since we had a Swiss Pass).  It was a 3 hour ride (if I'm remembering correctly) on Lake Brienz.  We thought about getting off on the other side of the lake and taking the train back, but we're glad we stayed on.  Despite just going back the way we came, this time we saw a cool rainbow - one nice little benefit of the rain.  And what was cool was you could see both ends of it.