A Romantic Getaway

Well, Mark and I had our first romantic getaway (for everyone who has been wondering about the romantic escapades). We rented a car this past Saturday (and got lucky...it only had 12km on the odometer when we picked it up, and 650km when we returned it). We started at 5am and drove to a little town in northern Italy called Aosta. To get from Switzerland/France to Italy, you drive through the Mont Blanc tunnel, which is a 15km long tunnel through the mountain. It was pretty cool, except for the fact that they nearly rape you to drive through the thing...it was 35 euros just to drive through??? Once we got there, I had some early morning Italian ice cream while we walked around and took pictures. It was a cool town...had a bunch of Roman ruin things that were built a super long time ago. There was a cool arch thing that was built for some Agustus dude over 2000 years ago! 

We left Aosta and were raped again as we paid another 35 euros to drive through another super long tunnel, this time going towards Zermatt (the Matterhorn). After a few hours of driving (through some of the coolest roads I have ever seen), we arrived at Zermatt. Luckily, we got there just in time to get a really cool view of the Matterhorn...I know what your all thinking, how romantic huh? 

For the next many hours, we drove along lake Geneva and stopped in a handful of cool towns along the way.  We finally dropped the car off after a 17 hour day! It was definitely worth it and we were able to see a ton of cool things in a relatively short amount of time. I'll post some pictures with this, but if you really want to see the cool ones, you are going to have to ask Mark. 

This is some crazy chateau thing in Montreaux Switzerland that was probably built a super long time ago too!

The Matterhorn

Some Roman colosseum thing built a super long time ago! 

This was a cool church in Aosta...I am not sure how happy the praying people were that we were taking pictures though???

I had to spend a while in this thing, and the guy told me I had to do like 40 "Hail Mary's"...I still don't know what his deal was???

This is just a classic little street in Aosta...just what you would (at least I did) picture an Italian village to look like.