While planning for our year, both in advance and on-the-go, TripAdvisor became our sixth family member. We poured over reviews and suggestions of restaurants, apartments, hikes, hotels, trains, and self-guided tours. As a school writing assignment, we even studied what makes a good review and...

We have taken lots of pictures this trip and here are some pictures of my family (and me) taking some of the pictures you see!...

We built a stick fort called ”The Bunker”.  It had an outhouse and everything.   It is called ”The Bunker”because When W was breaking down a tree I called to H get in ”the Bunker” because the Bunker is the most protected point in our stick fort.” I...

A few days ago ,in Switzerland, we hiked from Wengen down the mountiain Lauterbrunnen where we went to Trummelbach Falls. Trummelbach Falls Is a . waterfall in a cave. We took a elevator (also in a cave) to the first waterfall. The waterfalls were amazing! There were lots of puddles because...

Our journey today included: a ride up, up, up on a gondola, lunch (PBJs, salami and ham with butter), some family arguments, an hours-long stroll across a small jag in the Alps, a train ride, coats on then coats off, the sun on our face, and blue in the sky. But — our journey today was...

This screen shot memorializes a crucial dinner prep moment this week in Switzerland. We were aiming high — cheese fondue! — but we needed help with a translation on a food package. H kindly typed in the French — and voila! — “Pour the contents...

We were in the thick of heart-exploding beauty today. Here are four shots of “our peaks” presiding over the day — from sunrise to...

This is the scene from our World School table today in the Swiss Alps — including some bananas, a handwriting workbook, a dry erase board with coordinates, S’s Bible and devotional book, salt and pepper shakers, a map, a beloved stuffed animal, some pencils, and a pocket...

Good Morning, Swiss Alps! The view from H’s...

Sarah and Jean treated us to pure Swiss dinner fare this evening: a meal of RACLETTE. Artisanal cheese was heated up inside a table-top grill, then poured hot over boiled potatoes … and sweetened with vinegar-heavy baby corn and onions. The adults enjoyed Swiss wine, made from grapes...