FrenchWards: Les Parents sont Arrivés Part 1

And so next comes the visit from Nona and Papu. We had an awesome trip together to Switzerland where we stayed right on the Lake of Luzern in a really nice bed and breakfast. We visited both Adligenswil and Udligenswil, where we lived so many years ago. It was the first time my mom had returned since those years. Luckily she remembered her German well enough to get us around and to meet some nice people along the way. We were blessed with beautiful weather. So much fun.

Waiting at the train station to pick up the rental car.

Bob was meanwhile in Italy on his own ski adventure, this is us missing him on the train

The wisteria bloomed just for Nona

Having a babysitter, I was able to go out for the evening

Autogrill food
The first shock of how expensive Switzerland is
compared to France

Autogrill is a roadside chain restaurant
It is probably my kids' favorite resto in
all of Europe...

The view from our balcony at the bed and breakfast

Evening stroll to dinner

I'm bored!
Jasper's Euro-mantra

Italian dinner in Schweitz

Ah the good life

Private indoor pool with stationary swimming

The sun room

Adligenswil

Our Adligenswil apartment
The pink bldg, far left
We lived here when I was 6
(Micah's age, 1978)

When you're a kid, you remember how the sidewalk looked

Micah loves dandelions

Luzern

We lived in the hotel for 2 weeks
when we arrived on our second
life in Switzerland
The National

Lakeside Crêpes

Thumbs up

Boat tour on Lake Luzern

Weggis

Swissy

The pink church

little miracles

"I'm bored"

The city wall

Udligenswil

This was where we lived the second time we went
to Switzerland. The top balcony

Lots of memories here

The Rigi

We rode to the top of Mt. Rigi and walked some of the way down. We attempted to walk all of the way down, but it got steep and tricky.

Interlaken and Trümmelbach Falls

I tried not to include too many pictures of the waterfalls but it is hard to delete them. The glaciers from the Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau drain into the mountain and form the falls. This is a must see if you are in Switzerland.

Guess what he's saying..

Grindelwald

Chambon sur Lignon

Aimé took us to visit the village where his mother grew up. This is the region that helped shelter children (and some families) during the holocaust. Because it is such a remote region, there already existed a natural isolation from state rule in general. This isolation made fostering Jewish children perhaps easier, but not really less dangerous. It was the Protestant folks known as the Juste (the righteous) that would receive children arriving on train, car, foot, whatever means. As you can imagine, reading and listening to the stories at the museum was very moving.

Yes we called each other in the morning about wearing stripes...

A certificate from the Israeli government
acknowledging the bravery and righteousness
of this region

Hanging around Anse

Castille

Boooooring

Fossil hunting

Apéro chez Maillard

The French idea of food storage

Lyon

The Fourviere Cathedral where we happened to catch a chorale. Beautiful (and boring if you're everyone but me and my mom...)

Saved by the bouchon (Lyonnaise restaurant)
It was pouring rain, we were very wet.

At the end of the rainbow, there's a
$%@*&! bathroom

Ferme en Ferme

This weekend hundreds of farms in the Beaujolais opened their doors for tours. We first visited a biosynergy farm/winery. There was a lot of love. We were not there for the nude picture but I think it speaks to the general feeling of the farm.

Then we visited the hipster goat farm with cheese making on the premises. There were cool people playing music dressed in black and bunnies to hold in your lap..