Eisriesen Welt

Today we hiked to the worlds largest ice cave! We started the morning off by meeting at the train station. The joke of the semester is how we just show up place and somehow we always wind up going some where. So your instructions were to meet in the main area of the train station at 7:50 in the morning. All ten of us are there by 7:30, but our instructor is not. It gets to be 7:45 and we are a little worried, but eventually he made it. It was then another hourish train ride. It was cool, b/c we got to go past part of the river we rafted on. When we got off the train it was another 30 min bus ride about half way up the mountain. From this point it took us 2 1/2 hrs to hike up to the path that lead to the ice caves. A total of close to 3 hrs to just get to the caves. However, the weather was amazing, the sun shone all day! And the view, I hope the pictures can show even half of what the Alps looked like. It literally took your breath away to see such a beautiful landscape! The ice caves themselves were just as amazing. We walked inside the mountain into darkness, thank goodness for the old school lamps that you could shine on the different parts of the ice walls and structures. The song that kept going through my head was "Shine your light and let the whole world see. Singin' for the glory of the Risen King! Jesus, shine your light!" Once we got out of the caves back into the sun light the song was, "Into marvelous light I'm running."

Today was truly a great day! I couldn't imagine spending it any other way. The people are fun, the scenery breath taking and hiking is just fun in general!