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Swiss Excursion, Part II
Today's excursions involved more people than yesterday. New
to the cast of characters were Franziska's mother and brother's
girl-friend Linda. The five of us loaded into a car, and headed
out to the mountains. The plan was to take a sky-lift (suspension
train??) to the top of one of the Swiss Mountains (which one?)
where I would see incredible views of Switzerland. Sounded like
fun to me, and it was. Here are some photos we took; see for
yourself how beautiful it is.
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[Title: "Views of Switzerland I" ImageID: 512316_9 ]

[Title: "Franziska and Ruth" ImageID: 512316_6 ]

[Title: "Me on top of the World" ImageID: 512316_7 ]

[Title: "Ruth on top of the World" ImageID: 512316_8 ]

[Title: "Me, and Snow" ImageID: 512316_11 ]
Next we visited a cheese-making-place at the bottom of the
mountain, and then took a scenic route "home" so that I
could get a good sampling of the architecture in the different
towns along the way.
Sat Oct 7
Today we awoke early, so that we could catch the correct
train into town. Ruth and Franziska told me the plan was to
visit the capital city of Bern. Sounded like another excellent
idea. (These gals are full of good ideas!) Unfortunately the
legislative buildings were closed, however we did visit many
interesting sites. These included the visitor's center where
we saw several of the city's mascots: brown bears. Also at the
visitor's center we watched a multimedia presentation about the
history of Bern. Did you know that when Nepolian invaded Bern
he "kidnapped" the bears? They were later returned.

[Title: "Ruth and Franziska in Bern" ImageID: 512316_19 ]

[Title: "Franziska and Ruth atop Catheral" ImageID: 512379_1 ]

[Title: "James atop Catheral" ImageID: 512379_2 ]

[Title: "Franziska on Train" ImageID: 512379_3 ]
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