Switzerland here we come!!!

So on Friday February 13th, we headed out in the morning with our friends the Bonds to Switzerland.  We rented a 325 year old chalet to stay in for the weekend.  This is our first trip into Switzerland and one that David had been wanting to take for a long time and we finally were making it.

Our first glimpse of the alps - they are so beautiful!!!!

The boys were very excited about going skiing and snowboarding again this year!!!  Look at the sunshine coming in through those windows!!  I love all the vitamin D!!!!

Another shot of the mountains - I couldn't get over their beauty!

With the fridge being so small we decided to use the snow to help keep things cold as well!!!  It worked great!!

So I come really well prepared when going to apartments all over Europe.  I bring my pans and pots if needed, crock pot, etc.  Usually they have cooking utensils for us to use.  When I started cooking the taco meat, I looked for a spatula and low and behold there wasn't any to be found.  So we improvised - cleaned off an ice scraper and that became the spatula.  It worked pretty well too!

This was one of the kids favorite places to play.  There was no cue ball, but that didn't matter.  They didn't know how to play pool and they made up their own games.

So in the listing it said the house had heating, which is important when it is below freezing.  What it didn't say was all the heating is by fireplace.  This was our heater in our bedroom.  It was a small fireplace that had to be checked regularly.  Unfortunately at night it always went out.  But luckily we had warm covers.

This was the main heater upstairs.  This one could put off some heat.  When we arrived at the house, the inside thermometer was at 0 degrees Celsius - it was warmer outside at that time.  Once we had the fires going the temperature rose thankfully.  It was definitely an adventure with this one, but we are always up for adventures.  We had a wonderful dinner and then we played cards the rest of the night!   We went to bed at a decent time so we would be ready for a ski day tomorrow!!!