ive discovered that when in the mountains, time moves at a much slower pace. i can feel like ive been hiking for 7 hours, when in reality its only been 3. or i can stare at the view for eternity, but the clock will tell me its only been a mere minute. this, i love. i have been forced to spend time on my own, thinking and contemplating. i have nothing else to do but stare out at the towering mountains, at the villages below me, and at the peaceful town surrounding me. this is precisely how i will remember my experience here. not rushed around, trying to get all the sites in one day. but relaxing, reading a book, and soaking in life.
i love it here, i truly do. today i dished out big money to take the cablecar up to schilthon - piz gloria. this is the very top of the mountain, one of the highest peaks in this area. i honestly could not get over the extreme beauty. i arrived and made my way up to the piz gloria restaurant where i paid a ridiculuos amount of money for a coffee and a bowl of wonderful vegetable soup. this restaurant is revolving with glass windows (you know, like the one at the top of the cn, but 500x better!!). so there i sat, sipping my coffee watching the mountains and skiers as i slowly revolved around. what an experience. then i went outside to the lookout. you would think, considering i am canadian, that i would dress warmly enough for a snowcovered mountain that is over 9000 feet in the air. nope, i didnt. so i suffered the cold to simply stare out at the view. there is no way i can even begin to explain to you what it looked like. i have never seen anything like this ever and i dont think i ever will again. i really didnt want to leave, but i realized that unless i wanted to pay for another ridiculously priced bowl of soup (which was the cheapest thing on the menu i might add) i had to begin my journey downward. on the way down, i began to talk with this older man who is from the middle east. we were talking about how beautiful it is and he said "you know, you look at something like this, and you have to know there is a creator. i mean, until you get out into the world you can never really understand. too many of us get comfortable in our own little lives in our own part of the world and never witness the gloriousness of what the creator has made" (paraphrased...cmon thats a lot to remember word for word)
isnt that wonderful? AMEN!