Chillon in Montreux with Grandma

Adventures never stop for the Salimarkles. Grandma made her first ever visit to Europe last weekend to see both of her grandkids in Switzerland. We sent her back to California with a lot of great memories. The Saturday before she left we went to Montreux to visit the Chillon Castle. Although our littles weren't very interested in the Castle they had a great time going to the beach. After eating some lunch by the shore, we went into town and let the adults have a meal followed by ice cream! On the car ride back Zavi decided to get very upset and threw up all over him. We had to pull over at a gas station to clean everything up. I'll be very happy when car rides are less eventful. :)

On Sunday, we finally lassoed Amaya's unicorn. After 4.5 months, we finally caught the purple train/tram! I took Daji out for his morning walk and saw the purple train passing our local tram stop. After some quick calculations we estimated when it would pass us again and decided to take a chance at getting lucky. And we were successful! Amaya you were so happy and we were so happy for you!!!

On Monday, Grandma had to go home. Not wanting our long weekend to come to a restful stop we made a decision on the way home to go to Europa Park. We came home from taking Grandma to SBB and said let's hop in the car and have some fun!

Two princesses arrived as we were leaving the park. Amaya your face is priceless. :)

After Europa Park there were fireworks for Swiss National Day! They didn't start until 11pm. Amaya you stayed up!!! After 3 minutes of fireworks you said you were tired and wanted to go home. Hopefully next year we'll be able to watch a little more of the action. Zavi you did well. We woke you up from sleeping and you didn't fuss too much. The fireworks were definitely interesting to you.

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