Chateau de Chillon and Interlaken area

Because the kids don't have school Wednesday afternoons wetry to go and do something fun if the weather is nice.

We were waiting for Colin to come so we could visit the

famous medieval castle of Chillon on the other side of the lake from where we are.

The kids loved running around

stairways from the 13th century and seeing real prisons where "witches" were held before being burned at the stake in the 15th century. The scariest part was the crypt under the chapel. I was even a little spooked. Their favorite part was the bathroom. Kelsey seemed a bit surprised at how far everything dropped.

Then on Saturday after all the chores and homework were done we decided to drive to the mountains. It was a late start but after two hours we were in the Swiss Alps and the village of Lauterbrunnen where we parked the car and headed to the tram.

Looking up the houses are on the sides of the mountains and cows roam around the hillsides.

Of course all the mountain villages are connected with rail

roads and gondolas and we got to take both to get to the small village of Murren. We had a picnic and ate on the park benches looking out over the mountains.

When you get thirsty its not

hard to find a public fountain with fresh mountain drinking water.

Our bonus for the day was watching the horn blowers (Swiss alphorn) practice their song out in the meadow.