Our parents are here!!!

Sorry for the delay in posts but Adam's parents have been here since last tuesday. We have had so much fun taking them around and traveling to new places ourselves. His parents were dead tired they day they arrived...much like we were. Sleep deprivation for 30 hrs will do that to you. I did my best to keep them awake while adam went to work. I took them through Old Town Niederdorf to look at the buildings, down to the lake to walk around and see the Alps, and to the Viadukt to the food market. We finally came home and I let them take naps while I tried to figure out our travel plans the rest of the trip. Wednesday I took them to the main train station to the market for lunch and to get some cheese. There is a british cheese shop that has cheddar!!! Other than that it's all stinky swiss cheese. Adam met up with us later to run around and show them the city.

Thursday was our first day trip. We took off for Schaffhausen to see the Rhine Falls. It was a very long day but the falls are amazing. They are not has tall as Niagara Falls but they are bigger in the volume of water going over them. We had the best weather which we were afraid it would rain on us since it's been raining the last month here. But it didn't start until we were leaving.

The Rhine Falls

All of us on the rock in the Center of the falls

Here is a video of the Falls

Friday, it was raining everywhere so we decided to head down to Milan for the day. It's about a 4 hr train ride one way but worth it when you walk up to the Duomo. We ended up just walking everywhere and finally found the famous Galleria, the outdoor mall, which houses some big names like Louis Vuitton, Prada, and McDonalds. Dave has listed it as the fanciest McDonalds he has ever seen and I have to agree. We had lunch in the Galleria and then we went outside to the Duomo to take pictures. It was beautiful. Probably the prettiest church I've seen so far over here in Europe. By far the most ornate. After we strolled around and found a castle to go through before heading back to the train station. We also got Gelato...twice there hahahaha!

Saturday and Sunday were catch up days for us. Dave and Debbie still needed some sleep after walking around the 2 days before, as did we.  It was also raining off and on the whole weekend so we took the opportunity to show them around Zurich and eat some traditional cuisine. Lets just say Fondue is not our thing anymore and we won't be going back. Sunday we took them to our church so they could see it.  We had an amazing pastor from the ICF Munich church speaking and also they played 4 songs that we've sung at Metro so we were right at home. As we left the torrential rain started, so by the time we made it back to our place we were soaked. We got all the travel plans finalized for the next week.

Mom and Dad trying out our awesome paddle boats!

Tuesday they took off on their own to Fribourg and Gruyere. We equipped them with a phone just in case but they did such a great job going around on their own. Adam and I had tickets for the outdoor movie theater that night so we didn't see them till the following evening. Wednesday they went to Luzern to Mt. Pilatus and again got around great!

Thursday was their last day here and it was supposed to be the nicest so we took the train to Interlaken and hiked around. It was Beautiful! Lots of snow capped mountains and on the other side teal blue lakes and rivers, the epitome of Switzerland and a great end to their trip.

We just dropped them off and are sad to see such familiar faces leave but we will see them again in december. Thank you Mom and Dad for such a great trip...and for the Peter Pan Peanut Butter =) We Love you!

Adam & Abby