Gimmelwald, Switzerland--Heaven on Earth

This weekend me and three friends: Katie, Molly, and Eric decided to venture up to the alps. We found a hostel tucked in a little town called Gimmelwald up in the alps which you could only get to by gondola ride. On our train into Lauterbrunnen we saw many hikers in full hiking outfits prepared for snow with ice picks and hiking boots...we had packed swishy pants and our tennis shoes...we thought we were going to die! After getting off the train at the wrong station twice...(Basel Bad is not the same as Basal SBB and Ost being East...not West!) we arrived in Gimmelwald mid morning. When we checked into the hostel Petra, the owner, told us our room was the first door on the right...we arrived at the only door on the right with a sign that said "Lovers" on the door. "We are in the wrong room" we all thought, but after looking around and seeing that the beds we had been assigned to were in that room we realized that was in fact our room. The beds were like 4 twin bunkbeds all smooched together without separation...that was cozy! After taking a nap we "walked" up to Murren. I say walked in quotation marks because the air was so thin, the switchbacks so long, and the grade so steep it felt like a hike. We got into Murren and looked around for a few ours they had a coop for groceries so we got some bread and juice and for some views that were even higher than from Gimmelwald. I bought a painted sheep horn, it was exciting! Then we hiked back down to Gimmelwald and played cards with a new made friend named George from the Czech Republic. After sharing a pizza made by Petra we sat outside absorbing the view until the moon came out. I could have stared at that view for the rest of my life, I never wanted to leave. We slept in until 8:30 then cleaned up our beds and headed down to Lauterbrunnen for more hiking.
After we got back into Lauterbrunnen we took a hike to a waterfall and got to hike in a cave behind it. It was really cool to be behind a waterfall!
On our train from Lauterbrunnen to Mannheim we found a compartment that said it wasn't reserved and spent 2 out of the 4 hour ride in comfort. Then a French family came to our door and pointed at the spot where it would say reserved then pointed to their Eurail tickets and kept saying reserved and gesturing us to leave...When we left the compartment we saw that the sign still said it was available and it realized that the tickets they were holding didn't look like reservations at all...We were conned out of our seats by the French! We had been told that we would be fine getting on the train without making a reservation...wrongo! We ended up sitting in the accordion section between two train cars for the rest of the 2 hour ride...next to the toilettes. Not fun! But overall it was the most perfectly relaxing weekend in the Alps.
I never wanted to leave!!! If I didn't want to go to so many other places I would go back every weekend!