Two other adventures. I'm still alive...

We proofed it yesterday: we can also do rubber rafting on the Aare (in swiss german "Aareböötle") in pouring rain and wind. We did Thun-Rubigen (where we finally were sane enough to stop that experiment ;-)). Of course without the Uttigen-Schuss (a “step” in the river near Uttigen, that is almost 2 meters high) because we had just a little boat. We walked this part of the way with the boat on our heads. It started raining when we left in Thun and stopped when we were save again in the train. We have expected this, so we put everything important in plastic bags, I pulled a yellow postfinance poncho over me and my bikini and my sister preferred normal clothes and an umbrella. You can imagine how stupid we looked like!! Unfortunately (or luckily??) in this weather only few people are walking along the Aare. But when we saw someone we waved to this person and sang our songs even louder than before ;-). It was hilarious!! Yes, we WERE cold, we WERE wet and we WERE afraid of the big waves. But after a certain time, the moment came when I accepted everything and could really enjoy “Aareböötle”!! It was even harder to get out of the boat and stand on my own frozen feet than just remain seated in the water in the boat. The fact that the water of the Aare was slightly warmer than the air surely helped us stay in the boat. I will never forget this adventure on august 30 2012.

  

The other adventure was in the evening before. It was one race of the “4foulées” in the Jura. The train brought me through a heavy hailstorm to Saignelégier, where the weather was dry and stayed almost dry. The race was 9.5 kilometres and resembled an orienteering race without reading a map! There were only short parts where it was flat, I was always fighting and minding the slippery cow shits on the floor. The second woman Laurence Yerly with whom I fought on the first three kilometres didn’t overtake me again, so I won the womens race in a time of 39:44.8 minutes. In the finish I must have been looking almost dead (I also felt so), because the one who finished just before me asked me something like: "Are you okay?" I could answer him and soon said: "Une très jolie course!" ...and a whole evening, where I could practice my french! Now I know why they had already more than 600 participants.