Wednesday, January 14

New Years in Seewis

For New Years we traveled to Seewis, 
this beautiful town in the alps 
where our friend Bekki's parents live.

We hiked in the snow, 
buried each other, 
threw snowballs,
and rolled/body surfed down the hill. 


In the evening we ate fondue chinoise and 
played lots of card games, foosball, and pass the pigs. 


Just before midnight, we may have unintentionally fallen asleep....


But we woke up to light sparklers and 
watch the fireworks from the resort. 



The snow those couple days was the stuff dreams are made of. 
Absolutely breathtaking. 

We can't wait to travel over the summer and see Seewis perfectly green!


Christmas time

This year the holidays were bitter-sweet. 
We certainly missed being away from family, 
but thanks to loving friends and technology
we were able to celebrate Christmas with an adopted family
and talk to all of our family around the world :)


Traditional Swiss Christmas eve complete with 
real candles on the tree,
cheese fondue dinner,
Christmas carols,
A Charlie Brown Christmas....


and late night pillow wars...


We eventually fell asleep around 3 am.


Yep, I got to skype with the coolest person I know.  
And she comes home in 4 months. 
NBD. 

Sunday, January 4

Snow

Zurich is one of the least likely places in Switzerland to get snow. 
There is usually snow only once or twice a season, around February. 

2 days after Christmas it started snowing.
It didn't stop for 4 days. 

Zurich
December 26
December 27

Bonstetten
(hills west of Zurich) 
December 26
December 27

Multiply the snow seen above by 4 
and that is about what it looked like by New Years Eve. 

It was magical.

The snow has since melted in Zurich, but we cannot wait for the next snowfall.