This morning I was happy to find that yesterday's clouds had disappeared, giving my family a clear view of the Matterhorn. Because of the perfect weather, we decided to postpone our plans to take the train to Zurich in order to have time to take the cablecar up the 12,736 feet to Glacier Paradise on the Switzerland/Italy border. At the top we had terrific views of skiers, Italian peaks as far as we could see, clouds rolling in below us, the town of Zermatt, and o...

Yesterday we traveled to Zermatt for our last couple of days before my family leaves to fly back to the States. I am in a REALLY BAD MOOD because a virus wiped out all of my pictures from this week on my memory card. Collin brought my laptop from home and now that has a virus on it so I don't know if I can recover my pictures on my laptop either. Bad, bad day. Really grumpy.

Today was absolutely jammed packed with activities. We took a cable car up a mountain to Grütschalp, hiked for a couple of hours to Murren, then took 2 cable cars up to Schilthorn where James Bond, On Her Majesty's Secret Service movie was filmed. We then took the cable cars back down to Murren, took another cable car to Gimmelwald, and took one more cable car down to Stechelberg. We then took a bus to Trummelbach Falls, where we saw a series of ten glacier-w...

Today we took a train to Jungfrau (11,332 ft), the highest point in Europe.

It is so great to have Collin and my parents here! Today we traveled the "Golden Round Trip" in Lucerne. The round trip begins with a 1.5 hour boat ride across Lake Lucerne to Alpnachstad, followed by a ride up on the Pilatus Railway, the steepest cogwheel railway in the world with a maximum gradient of 48%. After we arrived at the top of Mount Pilatus (6,994 ft.) we spent a while taking in the awesome views of the surrounding mountains, towns and la...