June 9th- Munich/Zurich

June 9th-Munich/Zurich

We woke up this morning pretty late!  It was nice to be able to sleep
in a little bit.  Well, actually, everyone else was able to sleep a
little bit fore, but Stockton wasn't much up for sleeping in, so we
hung out a bit while everyone else slept in! All the missionaries got
there at around 8 for a homemade pancake breakfast!  My mom really out
did herself and the missionaries LOVED it!  They all headed over to
the mission office after for the rest of their conference. We were all
able to head there as well, and give a short little tidbit about how
missions have affected our lives and the lives of our families.  It
was really fun to be able to be there and to see them in action!  I
left the meeting a little bit early to get back home to finish
preparing for lunch- which was a baked potato bar!  So easy and yummy.
Except for the fact that I could NOT figure out how to turn the oven
off when I got home, and it just kept getting hotter and hotter, and
the baked potatoes might as well have been mashed potatoes they were
so done ! But they were delicious, so it didn't really matter. :)
Sister Claire Pingree- President Tim and Lou Ann's daughter-is serving
in this mission, and she came over to the house to get a package that
we brought her!  She is SO dang cute.  It was so much fun to see her,
and to get to talk to her for a little minute.  Her and her 2
companions ate lunch with us as well, so that was great.
    Everyone was SOOO tired after lunch, so when the missionaries went
back to the mission office for the rest of the training, we all stayed
at the mission home and had naps!  It was great.  Stockton is being
the best baby ever!  He is a bit fussy today because I have been
eating a little bit of cheese and chocolate and stuff, so I have to
try and lay off a little bit.  Poor little gassy dude!  But seriously,
he could not be a better baby for this trip!  What a dream.  We woke
up from our nap just in time to pack a little bit for the next few
days we are going to be away!  Then we got to talk to our cute kiddies
back at home!  We needed to wait until about 7:30 or 8 in the morning
their time so that they would be awake, and STILL Lincoln was so tired
that after he said HI to us, he went back to sleep!  So great.   But
the kids were darling.  I haven't started to miss them just yet.  Is
that bad?  They are having so much fun where they are, and we are
having so much fun where we are, that it is hard to be missing them
too bad.  But I most definitely do miss them, that is for sure!
Soooo, after we chatted with the kiddos we hopped into the big blue
car and headed for Zurich!  Zurich was absolutely AMAZING!  Holy
smokes that is a cool city!  We didn't do much, because we were kind
of late , but we were able to walk around the whole down town, and it
was so neat!  On our way there, we stopped at a beautiful gas station
to get some stickers for the car to travel around and just ate there
too!  It was surprisingly really yummers!  Who'd a thunk!
Anyways...downtown Zurich was so awesome.  It is supposedly one of the
most expensive places in the WORLD to live!  Yowsas!  I could see how
that would have been true.  It was really neat though.  Fun to say
that I have been to Zurich.
    As soon as we were done with downtown, we headed to our hotel- the
nicest hotel ever!  It was the Reniassance Hotel in Zurich, and it was
SO awesome! Apparently, it is fairly new- like it has only been open
for not even a year yet!  So it was really neat to stay there.  The
beds were really comfy, and we even got to watch the end of the
Germany/Portugal soccer game!  We have to wake up early in the morning
tomorrow though to get an early start for church.  But Zurich is
amazing!

I can't remember what the river is called here in Zurich...but it was SO purdy!

The view in the car on the ride there.  The car rides were SO absolutely beautiful!  It was hard to stay awake, but it was so pretty when we were awake! :)  Thanks Dad for being such an amazing driver!

Our first meal from the gas station.  I did NOT eat the leburkesa (I don't know how to spell it!), but Clle said that it was delicious!  We drank lots and lots of Apfelshorle

My mom is so funny :)

We pulled over on the side of the road to take pictures of this amazing view! 

Ahhh......