Our first Saturday in Geneva….We boarded the tram and headed out, Rocky thought it was Thomas the Train and was in heaven. After hoofin’ it to the lake, we took a boat taxi across just in time to run into a downtown riot. That’s a picture of the Geneva version of their SWAT team in the blue van. I thought for sure we were gonna die while Denton waited patiently at the bus stop. The Euro cops are cute, but short. It was a protest re: Israel and the flotilla. Luckily nothing got out of hand.
Then we headed onto a bus – there is NO air conditioning in Switzerland and the busses were stuffy, there’s also no deodorant. We rode the bus to the base of Mount Saleve, part of the Swiss Alps. Then we hiked about another half mile (the kids were troopers) and rode a rail car to the top. I’m scared of heights and about wet my pants while the kids hung on the doors with their noses to the windows. Had some ice cream at the top and hung out looking over Geneva – it is beautiful! Lake Geneva is amazing, I wish you could see it. Rode the rail car down, then took the bus, the tram, the car, then home. And with jet lag, we all fell asleep by 7pm that night. Still can’t believe we’re here.