I should preface this vacation section by saying that my family takes our vacations very seriously in the sense that we see everything we possibly can and then spend family time together when traveling and/or 'resting' at home. So, there is a lot to describe about the last two weeks, in fact, more than I'll be able to blog about, but rest assured, we had fun and it was a great way to celebrate my parents' 30th anniversary.
The first day saw Andy off to work, and since it took everyone a while to get rolling thanks to jet-lag, we took it easy the first morning and made our way into Zurich for lunch with Andy at his building. It was a beautiful day and we got to eat on the roof terrace, which was on the 4th floor or so. After we ate we all went down and saw Andy's lab where he was trapping a particle. For the grand finally of Andy's building, we went up onto the roof (13 stories up) where we got an excellent view of the city. Here's some photos of everyone on the roof:
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| It wouldn't be a Hoogeveen vacation without Dad running the camcorder :). |
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| The men. |
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| The women. |
We let Andy go back to work, and we went to downtown Zurich via the Polybahn:
Once in downtown, we wandered around and viewed the 3 downtown churches. Afterwards, we took a 1.5 hr ferry ride around the lake, which was a bit cool, but still fun! Here's some photos:
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| Mom and Carsten :) |
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| Dad, Ashley, and Luke with the Grossmunster church in Zurich. |
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| Dad and Luke on the lake cruise. |
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| My beautiful sister :). |
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| We could make a large list of all the places we have photos of Carsten sleeping. |
After the lake cruise we stopped at the iconic Zurich chocolate shop, Sprungli, where we got fresh truffles and Luxembergerli, which are apparently famous macaroons in Zurich. They are pretty good, which chocolate being my favorite of course :).
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| Luxembergerli |
Well, that wraps up day 1 of the Hoogeveen adventures! I'll try to keep the posts coming :).
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