Rafting on the Lütschine River

If you enjoy nearly freezing to death in raging frigid water, I highly recommend white water rafting in Switzerland.  Don't get me wrong, it was some of the best white water rafting I have ever experienced, it was just a bit nippy. We met a large group of Americans on the trip, and subsequently formed raft "Team America" only to be disbanded because we could not all fit in one raft.  Syd, Bob, and I were put in the second raft with a german family who spoke limited english. We then changed the name of our vessel to "team deutschland."  The guide decided to give all commands in English (he spoke German, English and French), which often took a few seconds to register with our german shipmates.  This was a bit unnerving (see look on faces below) as we hurled down the Luschine river on what the guides said was the highest water they had ever seen. We decided that he should give all commands in German as this sounded much more urgent to us.  SCHNELL! you get the idea.  We had a great time, and made it through the bitter cold with our new friends.  The river emptied into the beautiful blue lake surrounding Interlaken. We then proceeded to race Team America to the docks.  We barely made it back to the Chalet before collapsing on the porch. 

Team Deutschland: us and a family of germans.  Commands were shouted in english and german.  We decided that german sounds much more urgent.

So. Cold.

Game Faces.

The word your looking for is sheizer.

Victory!