September - Our First Vacation in Europe...Corsica

I'm brief on comments here cause I want to get this posted and Dave's about to drag us out and back up the Kaiseregg...again...I'll try to describe more later.

We went on a vacation...our first since moving here. We drove from Fribourg to Genova, Italy. Then we took a Ferry (more like a rough cruise ship with millions of cars, bikes, trucks, campers, boats...you name it) to Bastia, Corsica. Then we drove two hours to Porto Vecchio to a house that we rented for the week.

This is a picture of the drive from Switzerland to Italy...over the Grand Saint Bernard pass.



We spent one night in Genova before the ferry left the next morning. No, Kacey isn't excited...
Waiting to get on the ferry.... it had a playground and played Bugs Bunny movies...perfect!


At our beach...

August 2008 - Kids Playing and a Birthday

Just some pictures of the kids ...


Cambelle turned 1. Poor baby...her birthday was surrounded by a horrific stomach virus, so the highlight was a cupcake that Katie and Tom brought over for her to eat. And she got some fun mail to open from Mema and Papa.




Dave and Kacey and Cambelle have taken a few afternoon bike rides when the weather would let them.


Opening a birthday present..."finally something for my birthday. Mom, Dad and Kacey finally stopped throwing up and gave me some attention for turning 1 year old! "

August 2008 - Guy, Lausanne, Train Park, Kaiseregg

Swiss National Day ... we went to a farm brunch and the fireworks-bonfire show in our backyard park again. Jon G came with us for the brunch ... everyone else was back in the U.S. for the Summer.

We went to Lausanne one day and found a great fountain to swim in!


We also found good berries to eat and a good beach all in the same day.
Guy came to visit us.... two times. He stopped for about 12 hours in route to Tel Aviv. Then stayed about 2 days on his way back home. We met him in Lucerne for his first visit, then he came to our house for his second visit.
We went to Vapeur Park one day (as soon as Dave got home from travelling for work, we kept him going non-stop). Vapeur Park is a mini-Swiss Park with mini-trains running everywhere. Even fun for the old folks like me and Dave.
Dave finally got us to the top of the Kaiseregg...he had hiked up it on one of his very first trips here, and always wanted us up there with him. It's a mountain we can see from our house...near Scwartzsee, Lake Noir. It was steep, but definitely worth the effort. Kacey LOVED it. At the top saddle, a view of the snow capped alps was spectacular, but it didn't grab my camera like the field of sheep that we walked into ... they were all around us.



That's where we were when we finally got to the top.

Kacey and Dave at the top.

Hey, back off and give me a break...Cambelle and I were there, too! Somebody had to take the picture!!!!

There was even a small moment where we were in the lead! :-)