Snow at Mt. Titlis

While in Lucerne, today we went to Mt. Titlis. I went there with my parents, my friend Aarushi and her parents too. 

First we went on a train to Engelberg. From there, we took 3 cable cars to reach Mt. Titlis. One of the cable cars was rotating as it went up. It was quite a unique experience. My father and I were standing in front of each other. But soon, he started moving in the opposite direction from me.

I was having a bad stomach ache since morning. I was in a lot of pain even as we went up the cable cars. My mother gave me medicines to reduce my pain. 

Once we reached up to Mt. Titlis, we went out to the glacier to enjoy the snow. It was very windy out there on the glacier. All the while it was snowing as well. It was so cold and freezing that I could not bear it and started crying. My friend was also feeling as cold and was also crying. Both the mothers were also feeling very cold. The fathers took us to a bit of a corner to protect us from the wind so that we could enjoy the snow, but it was pretty windy there too. We tried playing a bit with the ice but soon gave up and went back inside.

Since it was pretty late already and we hadn't had any lunch, we went down to the restaurant and had some pasta, fries and soup for lunch. We also bumped into our building friends - Sahil and his parents. They had come in early and had also managed to do some of the snow activities.

By this time the wind had died down a bit. So we gathered our courage and went out to the glacier again. The different activities were shut down by now due to the bad weather. We went a bit further into the snow and threw some snow balls at each other. Then we clambered up a small  wall of snow and went up to a higher level. The mothers didn't come as they were quite scared of slipping down.

Once up, we again played a bit with snow balls and threw them at each other. Once the wind started picking up again, we decided to go down. However, we were not sure of how to do so. We saw some people sliding down the snow to the below level, using their bums as tubes. So Papa and I decided to do the same and came sliding down one after the other. Aarushi and her Papa did the same.

My Papa and I went up once again midway up the higher platform. Since it was getting late, we turned around there and slid back down. There was snow all over me and into my clothes. We quickly went inside where our (Aarushi and mine) mothers changed us into dry clothes. By then they had announced that they were shutting down the cable cars soon (as it was very windy and hence not safe to run them).

So we quickly went down to the cable car place. There was a big queue and we had to wait for a while for getting our turn to board the rotating cable car. Even at the next level, we had to wait a long time for our turn for the second cable car. 

In this way we finally reached Engelberg once again. There were very strong winds blowing and we were almost flying in that wind. We found an Indian shop and quickly had some tea, vada-pav and samosas before boarding the bus to the station. At the station again we had a long wait for our train to Lucerne. Aarushi and I used that time to play office-office. But more of that later. We finally got back to Lucerne, tired, but happy at having been out in snow, in a snow fall and having played in snow.

We got some very nice pictures of us as well which will serve as a memory for years to come.