Guetzele

Grossmuetti taught me how to make Swiss Christmas cookies. We made 6 different kinds, but I only photographed two.

Katrina helped too.

Cornflakes cookies

 Rolling out the dough

Spitzbuebe! Mmm

 Cutting out Hollaenderli

Now the best part starts...eating them all!

Gnomeo and Juliette?

Not far from us in a land called Soppensee...

live a colony of garden gnomes...

When I was little they had a petting zoo...

 ...but apparently gnomes are less fussy than goats and geese. :)

So close...

0.050 miles
145 steps
4.1 calories
Yes...however you want to add it up, we are So Close to the best Swiss grandparents the world has ever seen.

Uncles are Awesome

 What could that mischievous grin mean...???

 sneaking up...

 Haha!

 Oh, no, he got me!

Yup...uncles are awesome!

New Life

This calf made its appearance so quickly Grossvati didn't have time to call us in to watch. Isn't she a beauty?

We're here!

Thankfully the only thing we lost was the wheel on one of our little suitcases.

 Our first view of home...the weather was glorious that first day.

The usual sweet welcome: Black Forest Cake

So, here we are at DIA with our ENORMOUS load of suitcases.

 We had pizza in Chicago.

 Waiting for boarding.

We've arrived safely in beautiful Swizterland!