Switzerland Days 4 & 5 - Family Vacation 2014

On the fourth day in Switzerland, we headed to Grindelwald and from there we took the little gondolas up to First. We hiked a bit up to this really beautiful lake and hiked down to Bort to meet mom and dad. 

Just some goats on the hiking path

Annnnd the cows

I thought this guy was going to attack - notice the cow bell

Our hike peak was this nice lake :)

The next few photos were on our way back down from the lake. Look how beautiful it is!

From Bort, Rich, Lea and I hiked back down to Grindelwald to meet the parents and kiddos. They took the gondola's back down!

Mom, Dad, Scott and Charlie took the gondola's down

View of the hike down

On the hike down, we found these guys... 

 I am just hanging with the Alpaca :)

So beautiful!

Coincidentally, this is also the day we bought a TON of Swiss chocolate! There was this cute little chocolatier in Grindelwald that we saw on our way up the mountain so we stopped there on the way out to get some chocolates to go!

That night we decided to make a reservation for Day 5 for brunch/lunch. These are some of the MOST beautiful photos. On Thursday morning we got up, took the bus to the cable cars, then took three different sets of cable cars to get to the Schilthorn. Fun fact: On Her Majesty's Service, a James Bond movie, was filmed at the Piz Gloria, the revolving restaurant at the Schilthorn. A not so fun fact... every cable car we got on going up to the Piz Gloria/Schilthorn had the theme music for James Bond.

View from the cable car on the way up

Scott looking down

Don't let that smile fool you... she white knuckled anything she
could hold onto on the way up! But despite not liking it, she made it! :)

My phone somehow made this black & white

Panorama of the mountains 

The cable car we took up (fits about 50 people in it) 

Selfie in front of the mountains

That... is the Schilthorn

Mom and Dad in the revolving restaurant (Piz Gloria)

We are very colorful :)

Woohoo! Nice photo of Rich, Lea and Charlie

This was one of the places we had to get off the cable car, so we took
in the view on the way down

Two cool kids :)

After we left here, we went down one more stop then we split up. Rich, Lea and Charlie went for a hike, and Mom, Dad, Scott and I went over to the Funicular to take it up the mountain!

Fenicular track :)

View from the top

Pretty awesome playground

Scott enjoyed it

Charlie on his hike

Lea and Charlie

Here they are again!

LOVE this photo

Rich and Charlie hiking

Then Mom, Dad and I hiked down to Gimmewald, where Dad wanted to go. It wasn't much of a town but Mom and I hung out for a while and waited for Rich and Lea. Dad and Scott went back to the campsite. Once Rich and Lea showed up, Mom and I took Charlie and Rich and Lea continued on their hike. 

One of the most awesome things in Switzerland was all the FLOWERS! Beautiful!

Need More Cowbell!

Scott with the cow

View from Gimmelwald

We took the cable car back down and then walked back to camp. 

Look hard, we saw the parasailers jumping off the mountain.

Just some hoodoos on the way back

Mom and Charlie on our hike back

One of my favorite photos... red neck European camping at it's finest...
that is a van with a tent on top of it

Only one more post! Then I'm done with the vacation posts and can get on to more important things, not exactly sure what those things are but we'll find out!