Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Switzerland trip

Switzerland was gorgeous. It was everything I thought it would be and more. The snow, alps, architecture. We didn't realize that they celebrated Easter from Friday to Monday, so most of the shops and restaurants were closed. Oddly enough there were many Italian (go figure) restaurants to choose from. We ate fondue at one of the Italian restaurants, so we're able to say we ate Swiss food, in Switzerland, This same restaurant had horse on the menu. We had eaten at a posh French restaurant the night before, and Darrin was teasing his dad and told him that we could have been eating horse at the French restaurant and not have known it!

We were going to one of our destinations, and were traveling over the alps in a snow storm. We eventually turned around and found a different route. We had rented a handicap van and were able to see the scenery and travel at ease. Air travel with the electric chair proved to be much simpler than we had thought. We did have to ride up a platform to board the plane home, but we couldn't blame them for using this method because the chair weighs approx. 300 lbs. I wouldn't want to lift it!

Ray and Nancy were great traveling companions. We complimented each other and were able to enjoy each others company and share this experience.