Bon jour!

Our trip to Switzerland was wonderful! We left Dallas at about 12:30 p.m. on Monday and arrived in Geneva at 9:30 Tuesday morning. It was a long flight, but we were so excited to be there finally that we were ready to go the minute we got off the plane. Our hotel was exquisite, and we had a great view of Lake Geneva and the French Alps from our room. We spent Tuesday walking around Montreux and doing a little shopping. We finally crashed that afternoon and took a quick nap and then were off for dinner at a local restaurant. Montreux is in the French speaking part of Switzerland, and I was surprised at how much of my high school French came back to me. I remembered enough to be able to translate menus, signs, and other fairly straight-forward things. Madame Ross, my French teacher, would be proud!

The view from our balcony.

On Wednesday we took a tour of Geneva which is about an hour from Montreux. We drove around the city and saw several of their famous buildings, including the Red Cross headquarters and the European United Nations headquarters. Then we took a 45 minute walking tour which included Geneva's famous water fountain, the flower clock, St. Peter's Cathedral, and the Wall of the Reformation. After our tour we did a little shopping (we both got Swatch watches - a throw-back to our teenage years!) and had lunch. We found a Bob the Builder memory card game for Luke at a local toy shop. It's written in German, one of Switzerland's four national languages, and instead of Bob the Builder, it's Bob der Baumeister - pretty funny, especially when you sing it that way in the theme song.

Geneva's water fountain.
Geneva's famous flower clock. I imagine it's amazing when it's in full bloom.

It's hard to believe, but there are palm trees all over Geneva and Montreux - they call it the Swiss Riviera (but as you can tell by my clothing, it definitely wasn't bathing suit weather!)