Geneva. Or Geneve if you're a Local.

The Fedewa's and our yummy apps.

As discussed many times, we have friends who moved to Geneva around the same time that we were making the move to Melbourne.  It has been great to have friends that we could talk with about the process of being expats, but it was also hard because they sometimes feel so far away.  While the US is currently a 16-hour time difference, Geneva is 9-hours, which makes keeping up and skyping with them happen at odd hours.

But, since I have business in Geneva this week, I came in on Saturday morning, and got to spend two days with them - and they were gracious enough to house me during my stay!  What a great visit and a great city.  We walked around the city, drank wonderful Swiss wines, ate crepes, made fondue and raclette, and walked through wineries.  While we had a great time doing all of that, these are the types of good friends that you can just sit and talk and still have a great time!  The only bad part about the entire trip (short of the crappy BA 747) was that Jeffie couldn't make the trip with me.

Schwingen in Switzerland does a great job of talking about all things Swiss, so I'll leave that to her and share some pics of our weekend together.  The weather was a cool 0 - 4 degrees Centigrade, but it was such a nice change from the sweltering weather that we were having in Melbourne.

Lac Leman.

   

Jeff's favorite number is 17, so I got this one for him. 
Technically it's 717, but close :)



Roman Ruins.  In a car park.

Nice church steeple.

We hiked the vineyards all the way down to Lac Leman. 
You can see it on the right hand side of the picture.

And, we had to walk all the way back up.  This beach living girl

is not built for hills anymore.

Riding a grape picker.  To my right, there was nothing except

for a drop-off, straight down the mountain.  Lucky my balance

resembles that of a mountain goat.

Roller skating fool.  Sporting a blue velour track suit and

skate dancing.  We were convinced that he had a cassette player.

We miss you guys and can't wait for you to come and visit us in Melbourne!