Cheese Days

This past week has been a short work week for me. Yesterday (May 17th) was a holiday here, and now today (Friday) everyone is "working" from home. Perfect for us! We just got our couch delivered this morning and finally got the apartment in order. I can't tell you how excited we are!

Last weekend was pretty fun. On Saturday we went to a town called Unterwasser for "Kase Tages" ("cheese days"), which was basically a cheese festival. It was pretty cool to see different farmers there, different cheeses, etc. The best part though was the town itself. It was totally what you'd expect a small Swiss mountain town to look like. Check out the pictures (link above)...they are really good. On the way home, we passed all sorts of "giant" things...big wooden chairs outside a homemade furniture store, for example. Well, we passed a butcher's shop and I'll let you see for yourself what the "giant" thing outside that was! It should be about the last picture in the slideshow. We also passed a really cool restaurant and had some dinner. A skewer of pork, beef and shrimp (and a few brewskies) later, we headed home.

On Sunday it was gorgeous outside, so we walked down to the lake front to soak in some rays and lay around. In the 80's and sunny; the mountains in the background, people playing volleyball, bike riding, chilling, etc etc. It was a great day. Unfortunately, the weather has been rather iffy the rest of this week. Kind of cool and rainy, but it's supposed to clear up for the weekend which is good.

Speaking of this weekend, we are taking off this afternoon for Lugano, Switzerland which is about a 3 hour train ride to the southwest, right at the Swiss-Italian border. We have heard some great things about this place and figured why not!? We will be back next week to post pictures and let you know how it was. Have a great weekend!

(PS: Funny thing that we saw this morning. We have Swiss cable, which isn't so bad. There are some shows in English, we get North American Sports Network which is like ESPN for Europe, MTV, MTV Base (holla!), etc. Well, I was flipping through this morning and came upon "Sesamestrasse"...Sesame Street in German! Well, at least I thought it was funny...)