Yesterday, was August 1. If you live in Switzerland, that means it is Swiss National Day! This day celebrates the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy, in around 1889. In Geneve, it is the beginning of Fetes de Geneve, (Festival of Geneva). This means, nights of fireworks over the lake, bands playing in the streets and overall celebrating. As a family, we decided to celebrate the day in a very "SWISS" way.....
....Paul, Laura and I, along with friends, Kelsy, and Jordan Perry (Grad Students from BYU) hiked in the Jura Mountains. We took off from St. Cergue and hiked through lush mountain meadows. The meadows were full of cows ringing their bells as they ate their afternoon meals from the fields. It was quite the hike, but after what seemed to be unending switchbacks we arrived to the most splendid view of the whole lake, and valley! Might I say we all hiked, but Jordan ran up the whole thing and back to us and then ran part of the way down!! On our descent through the forest we heard an actual yodeler. His voice could be heard echoing through the forest, which gave us chills and was quite surreal. Laura and Jordan, who ran ahead got the chance to see the man yodeling!
In the evening, we all came home to eat a hearty dinner and then went down to the Lake to view the various cities firework displays, opting to do it from our own village of Genthod. It was heavenly down at the quiet little harbor, and it offered us fantastic views.
Could there be a better way to spend the National Swiss day? We think not! Bonne Fete Nationals a la Suisse!!!
1 comment:
Love it! Hugs all the way around!
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