Now, Your Moment of Zen

At least one person wasn't complaining about us being delayed by 3 hours in the airport. We found this lady and her fella doing some interesting yoga posses before our flight.

Gotta love my hygiene friends from SR. It was so fun catching up with everyone. Miss you guys!

Before the Jersey Shore there was the Fearsome Five! I can't remember the last time we were all together. We were so loud, I'm sure everyone in that place hated us.

We celebrated Christmas Eve at my uncle's house with a smorgasbord. In this picture my Grams is playing the piano during our family sing-a-long. She may not remember who I am, but I will never forget her playing the organ at every Christmas Eve since I could remember.

I ended 2010 in Utah with my parents. This is a picture of the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake on New Years Eve. Doesn't get much prettier than that!

Holiday Time in Zurich

There are so many fantastic holiday events and traditions here it is amazing. Unfortunately, we didn't get to participate in many since we headed back to California and Utah for Christmas, but there is always this year!

This is the Swarovski Christmas tree in the middle of the Hauptbahnhoff (main train station). They had a Christmas market surrounding it.

This is the view I had on my way to the Lindt chocolate factory where I bought most of my Christmas presents. It was so clear this day. Usually not like this in the winter time.

A couple of nights before we left for the US we hopped on a tram and headed to the Bahnhoffstrasse to see the pretty lights and decorations. This is Paradeplatz. The entire Bahnhoffstrasse is decorated with these twinkle lights that hang down from above the street. Gorgeous!

Chris and Chopper. It was cold, but she didn't seem to mind. She was so good and loves to ride in the trams and buses. A older Swiss man decided to come talk and pet her on the tram. She didn't quite enjoy that and started growling at him so he gave her a good whack on the nose. Yeah, like she knows Swiss German... Chopper and I were both stunned.

There were so many holiday activities and events that we missed because we left so early in the month and Chris was so busy with work. So is anybody up for Christmas in Switzerland 2011?

Strasbourg, France

There is no more of a charming city during the holidays than Strasbourg, France. My friend, Alicia, and I joined an excursion group from AWC-Zurich and took a bus there for the day. It was extremely cold, but the holiday atmosphere, shopping, and good company more than made up for it.


This is one of the main entrances to the down-town area. Beneath the name it says, "Capitale de Noel" or Christmas Capital. But would it live up to the name?

Every street was lined with wooden stalls with owners selling anything from hand-made soaps and candles to ornaments and ceramic kitchen wear. There were toys and jewelry and every type of bread and sweet treat.

It was also fun exploring the surrounding neighborhood and seeing how Swiss city life compares to French. (They have better bread and everything is less expensive)

Every street had different decorations and every store participated in decorating above their store front. It started snowing as we were leaving and was just beautiful. We had a great day and got quite a bit of Christmas shopping accomplished. This is on my calendar for 2011. I'll just have to bring bigger bags to pack all goodies back!