We got up this morning and maybe were thinking that we might be able
to go on another hike, but it was raining too hard. Nuts. So, we had
another yummy breakfast at the Hotel Belvedere and packed up and
headed out of there! We did a little bit of shopping there in the
town of Wengen, got some snacks and such, then headed to the train
station! We took the fun train back down the mountain to
Lautenbrunner and hit up the grocery store again for lunch! We just
ate in the car so that we could get on the road and head to Freiburg!
The drive to Freiburg was pretty long, but it was so beautiful!
Everything here is absolutely gorgeous! I can't get over it! On our
way to Freiburg, we stopped at the temple in Bern- which is just 20
minutes away from where Cole's Great-Grandpa was born! SO cool! Wish
we could have gone there to see it, but what can you do. His name is
Gustav Freiderich Meyer. Neat that we were that close! Anyways...the
temple was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! We were so sad, because it was
closed for cleaning for the entire 2 weeks that we are here in Europe!
Ah nuts! But at least we got to see it. It kind of reminded me a
little bit of the Denver temple- the way that it looked. There is a
huge forest back behind the temple that is apparently part of church
property and we walked all through it for a minute, and it was so
neat! Incredible! The trees are so cool! They are HUGE around, and
go straight up! There aren't many branches or stuff on the bottom of
the trees because there isn't much sunlight that reaches them. They
were so neat though. The Bern church is right there next to the
temple, and it is also surrounded by church housing. Really neat!
After the temple, we continued on our journey on to Freiburg.
Freiburg was SUCH a neat city! We walked all over and saw all the
cool quaint little streets that are lined with shops and things.
We've saved quite a bit of money because every night when we get into
the towns, all of the stores are closed so we don't have the chance to
buy anything! Good plan- I think. :) But we walked the streets, saw
the COOLEST cathedral- the Muenster. It was HUGE and the bells were
going off when we got there- because Mass was starting a few minutes
after we got there! The bells were so amazing. It was neat to hear
them. We went into the cathedral and they were just starting the
service. I've never seen a catholic service, and it was neat to see!
We just watched a few minutes and then left, but it was interesting.
We went to dinner at a yummy restaurant called Paradise- and it was
delicious! It was pretty fancy, and it was really inexpensive!
Inexpensive compared to Switzerland for SURE! Whoooeeee! Everything
in Switzerland cost a pretty penny! Yikes! Anyways...dinner was
delicious. I had my first Weinerschnitzel- and it was pretty good!
Cole had a salmon steak and it was delicious though! We've eaten SO
much! And you can tell. What can you do. After dinner, we headed to
our hotel- which was called the Mercure. It was AWESOME! We each had
our own room, and the rooms were great. We slept really good. Fun
day planned for tomorrow- fun day today!
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| On the drive to Freiburg |
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| Behind the temple in the forest |
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| The Muenster. The bells were SOO cool! |
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| The streets of Freiburg were SOOO beautiful! These were the gutters all over the city. |
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| And all of the sidewalks were these stone walkways that must have taken FOREVER to place! They were so neat. This was in front of the Darla Hotel- I believe. |
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| Also, over each of the streets were trees that were connected between each side growing into each other. They were so beautiful. |
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| The view of Freiburg from our Hotel- the Mercure |
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| The vines next to the buildings |
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