So, I just got home from the tour de force to Geneve and back. The bad news are that we couldn't go to the CERN and had not the chance to listen to the sound of the internet. Too bad.
We (as in me plus six other friends split into two cars) basically spent all Friday and all today driving, the car trip was around 9 hours long... X___X on Friday we arrived in Switzerland around 6.00 p.m., got lost as soon as we went through custom and started panicking, 'cause we had to get to our friends's home before he was back, in order to make him a birthday surprise (everything was organized by his girlfriend, who was a genius and somehow managed not to let even a hint to what was going to happen slip). We managed to get there in time (they don't live in Geneve, they live in a small town in the nearby, in France, but they work in Switzerland... we spent three days in and out three nations XD ), and the surprise party was a success!! :DDD We almost gave him a heart-attack (we got awesome pictures of when he opened the door and was all OMGWTF?!?! at all the people in their supposedly empty flat XD ), and then he was moved to tears =^____^= awww! One of us actually came back all the way from Ecuador (Ecuador!!) to be there for his birthday! As a present, we brought all sort of food (prosciutto, finocchiona, provolone cheese, stracchino, salame... the only thing missing was a live chicken, and the we would have been the perfect stereotype of Italians abroad XD ). Seriously, the trip was long and tiring, but seeing him so happy was well worth it! And I was really happy to see his girlfriend Monia too, she's awesome, and I really get to see her too little.
So, we spent an awesome time all together, on Saturday afternoon we went and saw Annecy, a lovely little town with a very cute city centre, and on the evening we were into Geneve: without knowing or planning it, we managed to be there in the days of this big celebration (...I'm not quite sure what kind of celebration was, like a city celebration or something), which, according to our friends, are the very only days of the whole year when Geneve is a little livelier than the usual (they say that all the rest of the time is a really boring city, nobody around, no places to go out and have fun... anyway, I thought it was an ok city, for the little that I saw). The best thing was this HUGE fireworks show on the lake, one whole hour of fireworks with music *______* Now, I'm a fireworks lover, so you can imagine I was more than happy XD
All in all, we had a really good time! ^_____^
Tomorrow I got to work... dammit.... =______=
(...I'm still a little shocked by my friends's flat, though... they got separate rooms for the bathroom and the WC O_______o; And the WC room got no window, not even a small one. They told us they actually were very lucky to find a flat with a bidet in the bathroom, so they couldn't complain...)