Never Enough Fun

We had a marvelous Switzerland experience, thanks to Ethan and Stacie taking such good care of us, guiding us to interesting places and working so hard to make us comfortable.  Since they live in the German-speaking part of the country, things become quite challenging because of the language.  Interestingly, however, there is a fair amount of English (e.g., announcements on trains and buses and ads in stores).  To make certain we boarded the correct train from the Zurich airport, Ethan met us there and also guided us to the correct bus to their apartment, where we arrived at approximately 9:00 p.m. on Friday.  They live in the town of Zug, approximately 30 miles south of Zurich.

Tanner and Lindsey attend an international school, which was holding a fair our first day there, so we attended it in the morning until lunch.  After lunch, Stacie stayed to help with the fair, while Ethan and we took the children to an animal park/petting zoo.

That evening we had dinner at a restaurant up on a mountain close to town, which required us to ride a cog-wheel train up to the restaurant. The food was excellent, as one might expect.
On Sunday, we attended church in Luzern, about a half hour ride by car. However, because their car wasn’t large enough for all six of us, Ethan took the train. Since the church service was in German, we were able to have some of it translated into English by LDS missionaries.
On Monday we and Stacie first walked to downtown Zug (about 20 minutes) and just looked around.



We had lunch with Ethan by his office, and then for the afternoon, we went back to Luzern to do more “looking around.”
Along with some interesting architecture, we saw a famous and old covered bridge that was decorated with original artwork. Unfortunately, there was a fire on the bridge a few years ago, and some of the art was lost.