Hey from the top of an Alp!! The day started at 8:00 (tooooooo early if you ask me) when the parents woke us up. We got ready, and had breakfast at the hotel. It was pretty much the exact same thing as we had yesterday for breakfast…pastries, eggs, fruit, meat, and corn flakes. Then, we loaded into the car and drove to this place (Ebenalp) and we rode a gondola up the side of the mountain. We hiked down the mountain after checking our reservations at the hotel...

Sunday morning was a late start for us.The girls slept in while Robert and I took an early morning walk around Zurich.We seemed to be the only ones on the streets.We checked out where to pick up the rental car (just a few blocks away) and walked to a lovely park up above the Limmet River overlooking Zurich and the churches we saw yesterday.It was a quiet moment in a beautiful place. Back to the hotel to wake the girls and get breakfast.(Included with the room—...

We have arrived in Europe!Thank you for joining in on our trip. If you would rather not receive email updates of our posts, please let me know. Our first positive experience was getting to see Georgia McLeland and her family at the airport as they were leaving for Georgia!After lots of goodbye hugs, our flights on American went very smoothly, leaving Austin at 8:50am on Friday, July 4th and arriving in Zurich at 7:33am on Saturday, July 5 (although it felt like...