Genève est où les Alps sont, oui?

Ah, les Alps.

I am in Geneva, Switzerland. I legitimately nearly cried upon seeing the Alps from my plane window; such a sight for sore eyes! (Not that my eyes are sore for mountains; they’re just sore). Everything is sore. And achy. I couldn’t have gotten more than an hour of sleep on the flight over, and my day isn’t done, but it is close. For me, it is 7am. In two hours, I will have been awake for a full day. It is, however, only 2pm here in Geneva and I still have to take a train to get to Annecy. I’m sitting in a café in the Geneva airport, and you can feel the planes taking off above you because the airport is mostly underground. Pretty cool.

I met some fun people on the way. On the plane from Minneapolis to Amsterdam, I met a guy who was coming back to the Netherlands (where they do NOT speak German, as he was quick to inform me, but Dutch), and had to go back to work on Monday. He’d been “having a holidays” as he put it. We watched The King’s Speech together (which, by the way, did not impress me as much as I thought it would. Maybe it was the tiny tv screen or the fact that I kept thinking “I should be sleeping right now”).  Actually, I was seriously impressed by the number of movies the plane had to choose from. Seven years ago when I went to England, there were like three choices and they just played over and over again during the flight. Now, you can choose from Hollywood Hits and Independent and Comedy, etc, and there’s at least ten movies in each category. I thought that was pretty cool.

On the way into the terminal to go to Geneva, I met a guy (interesting how when a person says “met” in an airport scenario, they don’t actually mean names or identities, just conversations), who was on his way to Berlin to visit his boyfriend. He lives in New Mexico and because the fires are so bad there, his workplace is shut down for the next week or so, and so he went to Germany. Nice. We had a fun conversation about a Japanese man wearing a white, bedazzled, ten-gallon hat. He was so fun to look at!

Now, I’m going to go hang out in Geneva downtown until the bus gets here.