Start of Summer?

For Memorial Day weekend, we took a trip down to ski resort of Wengen in the Swiss Alps. Wengen is a tiny village in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. As is the case with most of the villages in the area, it's accessible only by cog train, so we parked our car in Lauterbrunnen and took the 15 minute ride up into the mountains. The weekend was quite an adventure; we took some hikes through the mountains and saw many of the things one would expect to see in Switzerland, including immense cliffs, glaciers, alpine meadows full of wildflowers, and lots of farm animals. We experienced a wide range of weather, from 70 degree temps when we arrived on Saturday to 10+ inches of snow on Monday. We were even snowed in most of the day because the trains lost power and they closed the road between Lauterbrunnen and Interlaken (the only way out!) because of so many downed trees. We finally made it back to Ramstein-Miesenbach in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

Finn, the world traveler, had a ball being in a new place, seeing the sights from the comfort of the Bjorn, experiencing his first walk in a winter wonderland, and generally charming the hotel staff, who gave us the use of one of their nicer rooms for the day on Monday just so he could get some sleep in peace.

All in all, we think this trip put a nice close to our whirlwind time here. See the pictures here.