Exploring Mollie-Margot

What an amazing first weekend in Switzerland we had. We began the fun with an exciting night at IKEA on Friday. Ok, maybe that wasn’t the highlight but we are in desperate need of some curtains so that I am not flashing our 13 year old twin neighbor boys. We ran some errands on Saturday and then Tim, the neighbor boy, took us on a little adventure. We walked down to the farm at the bottom of the hill to get some fresh milk. You have to bring your own canister and once you are there, you walk on into the barn. There is a large round metal machine that holds the fresh warm milk (yes, yuck to warm milk but we refrigerated it once we were home and skimmed off as much cream as possible). All you do is open the nozzle and fill your canister with as much milk as you like. The whole process is on the honor system and you just leave 1 CHF/litre on the sink when you leave. It was pretty darn cool. Saturday night we went to dinner with a guy from work, John, and his wife. We ate at a great restaurant right on the lake. Scott was mostly excited because John is American and had college football set up at his house for us to watch before dinner. 

Sundays are a day of rest in Switzerland and everything is closed. . .literally everything. You are not even allowed to make any noise. No mowing the lawn, no vacuuming, no work at all. You are just supposed to spend time relaxing and with your families. This is of course a crazy concept to me but I decided to give it a try. We spent some good time at home and then went for a long walk to explore our new town. The town itself is comprised of 1 restaurant and a recycling center so our tour of the town was pretty darn fast. We decided to keep on walking though to see what else we could find. Here are some highlights:

There are several “honor” posts with all kinds of different goods to sell. This one was a flower garden which you were supposed to cut the flowers you wanted and your money in the small blue money box.

They also had this little cabin that had jelly, fresh cheese and potatoes inside with the same concept.

As we kept walking, we ran into the local Christmas tree lot. Apparently you get a free bottle of the local liquor when you buy a tree which I think is a great idea.

Deacon was pretty excited to make friends with the sheep but that was before he hit his nose on the electric fence. I have never heard the poor boy give out a yelp like that.

We eventually came to a wooded area that had a great walking path through it. It was nice and cool and the dogs loved smelling everything. There was even a nice bench to take a little rest.

A few minutes into our walk, we saw angry looking tree. After a second glance, though, I did notice he was smiling so I think we were welcome in his forest.

After a nice relaxing weekend and also catching up on the phone, we are ready for our first full week in the office. Let’s just hope that our air shipment comes this week. I am really sick of wearing my Crocs.