Mom's last two days in Switzerland

Sunday
On Sunday, we ventured over to the Rhieinfalls, where Micah and I had visited just a week or two ago. Since the weather was so great, we also took a little boat ride to the little island in the middle of the waterfall. It was really cool!













Afterwards, we wandered around the city of Schaffhausen for a bit. We climbed up the Munot, which was a defensive structure from the 16th century. From up top, there was a pretty neat view of the city.













From Schaffhausen, we proceeded to head over to Bregenz, Austria, which is another place that I took Micah when he was here. However, we took an interesting route - we went by way of Germany! We had a scenic train ride through southern Germany, and a nice little stopover in Friedrichshafen, where we had a surprisingly good view of the Appenzeller Alps, where we had been hiking the day before.






We made it to Austria, and met up with my friend Jesse. He showed us around Bregenz, and then his girlfriend Claudia met up with us for a very Austrian dinner.




Here is the journey that we took!


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Monday
Today, we headed out to Basel, where we met up with Kate from Longbridge and her family for lunch. Technically, they live in Liestal, but that was our starting point for the Basel tour. We had a lot of fun meeting up with Kate and her family!

When we made it to Basel, we did a good little tour that covered a lot of the "important" sights. This included the Basler Münster, the Rhein, the town hall, and many other sights!


















Here's the route we took, including the stop in Oberdorf BL to meet up with Kate and her family.


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As always, this is only a small portion of the pictures!

A week of updates

Zürich - Day 2
On our second day in Zürich, we brought Micah to the airport in the morning, and then headed back to Zürich to meet up with Guschti, a Waldsee counselor from a few years ago, for lunch. Around this time, we found out Micah's flight was cancelled, so we had to go back to the airport and retrieve him.













St. Gallen
Later in the week, mom did some exploring of St. Gallen, and brought me to the Cathedral in St. Gallen. Later on Wednesday, we went over to my boss's house for dinner. It was great - they live in a real Passive House, same as the Waldsee Biohaus.



Romanshorn
On Friday, we checked out the historical and cultural museum, and then went to Romanshorn.








Appenzell - Seealpsee
Mom and I went on a hiking trip today. We took the train to Appenzell, and then continued on to a little town called Wasserauen. From Wasserauen, we began walking up to Seealpsee, and continued up to the Ebenalp. There were a lot of hanggliders up in the air, so I'm sort of tempted to try it sometime!

Here is the route we headed out to do:

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We hiked up to the Seealpsee, ate lunch, and then walked up the valley a bit more. The scenery was pretty spectacular, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We had an ice cream at an inn at the Seealpsee, and the headed back to go up the trail to the Ebenalp. However, we talked to some other hikers and found out that we missed the last trip down with the cable car, so we took a detour down a different path. We met two Swiss hikers, who offered to take us to Appenzell with their car, to save us a bunch of time. It was a lot of fun!

























































I took about 400 pictures, so I'll show you the rest next time I see you!