skysworldadventures

I started the day with a hike/run.   Mostly on the hiking side of things.   My calf is still angry and I knew we had a day of hiking planned and I didn’t want to have it hurting all day.   I did the Panoramaweg which goes around the other side of the valley from where we are staying back towards Lauterbrunnen.   It was very pleasant and felt good to move a little bit without someone hanging on my arm or wearing a backpack.   I also think my calf is getting better. Good morning friendly cow! I really enjoyed the sounds of the bells in the mornings. The light coming in the mountains. Lauterbrunnin in the background and goats. After breakfast and we managed to get the herd moving, we walked back down to the Lauterbrunnen station and took a large cable car up to Grutschlalp.   From there we hopped on a train to Murren.   We decided we needed a snack so Wren had her first ice cream bar and loved it.   It was one of those ch...

Today was a travel day.   We packed everything all up and headed out to Lauterbrunnen which is in the Interlaken area.   We took a train to Tasch and then got a rental car and drove the 2.5 hours to our new location.   Both kids slept in the car which was nice. The views along the drive were amazing so here are some cruddy car window pictures.   The coolest part is there is a train that goes through a tunnel in the middle of the alps.   You drive your car on to the train and then park your car and then the train drives you through the tunnel.   It is so cool!   The last car and the car in front of the engine is open on one side and that is flush with the platform so you drive on and off the train via that car.   The first car pulls all the way up and each car pulls right up to the car in front and when the train gets to the other side you all drive off.   I thought this was a really interesting solution so that they didn’t have to make ...

We woke up to another beautiful clear view of the Matterhorn from our bed.   I had ambitious thoughts at 6 am when Flynt woke up to go photograph the town at dawn as the sun started to light up the Matterhorn but it was cold and I had a hard time climbing out of bed.   By the time I got moving the light was changing and I was still looking for a good place to take my pictures.   I took a couple of shots in good light with a crappy location and a couple of pictures with crappy light in an ok location.   I think I’ll be a better photographer when my kids are teenagers and want to sleep in so I can take a couple dawn pictures and go back to bed, lol!  The pictures really aren't worth sharing. We actually got out the door and moving at a reasonable hour and headed through town to the Winkelmatten gondola lift and then up to Furi and Schwarzsee.   The plan was to hike down to Hermetje where there was a restaurant that was recommended to me by a Swiss famil...