Hoit...Ausfahrt and dorf are my three favorite swiss german/german terms. Hi, car exit and village :)
We left Venice Tuesday morning and although we were a little sad to leave Italy we were ready for the next adventure. And we got it. We trained from Venice to Milan and quickly got a bite to eat since they really don't have anything for less thatn $15 bucks on the train. We have joked alot that we have eaten more bread these two weeks than in our lifetime, and this was no different. We had bread with a thin slice of "meat". NOTHING else and you know, we were starving and so we just sucked it up and downed it with a bottle of water (mine frizzante and Teena's naturale).
We laughed at the people "booking it" through the train station and said to eachother, I'm so glad that's not us. Well as we pulled into Zurich and realized we had only 10 minutes to de-train, find our next platform and get on the next train to Basel, we started running. Track 9 it said, but the time was up by 2 minutes so now we had about 3 minutes and we were "running". Run Jennay as Forest would say.
Then we get to platform 9 and there is literally no train there, and no people and we think, we missed it? It's not here...hmmm. So luckily we decided to huff it back to the main walk way to find ANOTHER train to Basel (ours this time we think) is boarding on platform 15 and leaving in 2 minutes. UHHHHH...ok. RUN TEENA..and we run with all our bags and think....KARMA shouldn't have laughed at those people in Milan. We get to Platform 15, there is only one person next to the train and he works there...so we literally jump on the first coach which is first class (not where we are sitting) and figure we can walk back the 9 cars to our seats while the train is rolling. And since it literally blew it's whistle as we stepped on, that is exactly what we did.
This is how we arrived safely and on time at teh Basel train station and as we stood up, my sweetest of friends Heather knocked on the window and was there waiting to collect us. The best hug ever was exchanged and few words can describe the joy of this reunion for me personally.
We have been welcomed by Tim and Heather's family into their perfectly situated home in Arboldswil with the widest open arms imaginable. We have seen castles, seminaries, views of incredible hills, the alps, a glass factory and the famous bridge in Lucerne. We ate ostrich for the first time last night during our elaborate and phenomenal fondue dinner prepared by George, Tim's dad as another amazing gift to us.
Tomorrow we go with Heather to a spa with various rain forest, salt pool, jacuzzi type goodness and will have to pack to head back on Saturday from Zurich.
Both Teena and I have expressed to each other the amazing things we have seen and the one of a kind expereinces we have had. Feeling incredibly grateful tonight for all the blessings that have been laid on us both.
We miss our kids and our friends and family back home and are ready to start the journey back into "real life" but with a very different perspective on what is important than we had on 9/15/10.
Peace to you all.
Jenn and Teena
I loaded some pictures on photo bucket and included a link http://s1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff463/jklotz1/Italy%20and%20Swissland/
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