Fun in the snow: Switzerland

The Mr. had 4 days off this past weekend, so we headed off to Switzerland to play in the snow. (To skip this post and go straight to the entire album, click here. The photos in this post are just a few selected from the many.)

Cast of characters:

Riding up in the cable car or "gondola" made my stomach lurch. I'm really not a huge fan of heights. Or speed. Or snow. Ah well, Swiss Alps, here we come.

At the top of this particular mountain is a daycare/childcare where you can leave your smallest members for 11 Franks an hour (about $8 USD). Daisy was cool with this arrangement.


Then we rented two sleds. The Mr. took Sparky on one, and Max and I got on the other.

Some of the slopes were pretty steep, and the only breaks for the sled are the boots of the person sitting on it.


At night, whenever I closed my eyes to sleep, all that I could see was the edge of the trail, and imagined Max and myself hurtling off of it.

The view was fantastic though.


There were some snowmen built,


we watched parachuters land,

and had a pretty great time. There was one unfortunate incident in which Max and I took a wrong turn and ended up having to sled down the entire mountain, but even from the distance of a few days don't really want to talk about it. It took three hours out of my day, about 3 years off my life, and I'd rather delete it from my memory.

In other news, I managed to finish the first Noro sock and am almost past the heel on the second one. Score for road-trip knitting! (Pictures of the socks next post.)

Will we go back? Now that I've got some sleep, I can say with certainty, "probably".