Interlaken = lame

So the last stage of our wild run across the country brought us to Interlaken.

Pluses: It was in the German speaking portion of Switzerland. We ate fondue! It was really gorgeous.
Minuses: Most of the people working there didn't actually speak German! They spoke English, Korean, Japanese, or Chinese (like the 4 bus loads of Asian tourists; I guess if you know your market...) After working in a tourist town, we have come to see through the illusion of such towns and unfortunately that's all we saw in Intelaken. Tourist crap. But, it was gorgeous and the fondue was great. Pictures!

Fribourg

Stage two of our whirlwind journey across Switzerland. Addie was finally asleep in the back seat so we took the chance to visit Fribourg (which was beautiful!). Here are some more pictures of the things we saw. Keep Reading The Posts Below!!!

Lac Leman and the castle Chillon

Chillon Castle on Lac Leman

We loved this castle, and as we pulled up to it, I had remembered clearly seeing it when i was here with my family many many many years ago. It was a fun memory. My mom loves this castle and has a picture of it hanging in her entry way by the stairs. Addison loved climbing into all the rooms and going through narrow hallways. She didn't cry and was a perfect angel the entire time we were there. She loved looking out the windows and thought the "potty" was really scary.















I took tons of pictures from the teeny tiny windows all over the castle. Here is a view of Montreaux from the top of the castle.

Some more of the view from small holes and cracks in the castle. I tried to take pictures from anything i could stick my camera through.

one week.

As of today (sunday the fifth of July) we have

been here in Switzerland for a week. Although I

feel like I've been here much longer, I am also so

sad that we only have three weeks left. I love it!



Since my last post we took a boat ride on Lake

Geneva and explored old town and many parks. I

also have made some incredible purchases (like the cutest (non) leather bomber style jacket!) I

have been looking for the perfect jacket for 6 + months and finally found it and not only did I find

it, i got in on sale for 50% off!! Okay

well back to the site seeing and the

historical Geneva. We

are walking distance from the train

station downtown but far enough that

we are near many

apartment complexes. We are living

on the top floor and our two outside

walls are all windows

with the most amazing view!
We have

been grocery shopping and saving

money for clothes and watches and

chocolate instead of going out to eat.



We live on cheese, baguettes and

instant mashed potatoes and apples.

We don't have a kitchen, but we have

the small minibar fridge and a water

boiler for tea (something i have never seen before). The water boiler works well for mashed

potatoes and if i can find top ramen for under $2 i will buy it. They sell a can of Pringles for $3.25

at the regular grocery store (Migros and Coop). The Swiss seem to be very particular about

everything being swiss made.

Its like swiss pride around here, it kinda reminds me of Texas.


Today we went to church, to the english speaking

ward. Its started at 2pm, which was really hard for

Addison. Apparently a family whom my mom was

good friends since she lived in geneva when she was

a girl, is still here and is the stake president. I didn't

get to see them but I am sure I will at some point in

the coming sundays.

I am posting several random pictures, some on a

super steep hill coming down from "old town" and

some in our room and tons of the view from our

room and the top of the Jet d'eau (water fountain

and the boat ride. Now a quick understanding of the Jet d'eau it propels 500 litres of water per

second to a height of 140 metres at a speed of 200 km per hour. It's pretty cool and if you look

at pics of the view from our room you can see the top of it. (i took a picture from each window!)










I am trying to plan our trip to Italy next weekend and I'll keep you posted on our latest adventures!

Addie is so cute!

We are really enjoying Geneva. My only complaint is that the whole city shuts down at about 7 pm. I manage to communicate despite my lack of french. We do public transportation everywhere. I didn't bring a stroller, and now I am really regretting it. I figured out what to call it now, pousette or push chair. So hopefully i will be able to find one. We went to a large flea market today. It was really cool and i wish i could get things home with me!
Addie made friends with one of the professors daughters and just adored her.


We have come to the conclusion that living abroad is a definite possibility. And living in Germany Ryan's 3L year sounds amazing. I can't wait to do a little traveling on the weekends.