Our home in Horgen

For anyone interested, we thought we'd put the apartment on video. Sorry no sound, ignore boxes and moving mess. Just thought it'd be fun to post our home for those who can't visit to see us. There are two videos.

The first is a shot coming in the front door and the second is the remainder of the apartment.

In the beginning of the first video and after the yellow front door is opened there is a scary, mystery door at which the camera points but the producer doesn't enter. If anyone's curiousity is killing them, then you should know that it is the half bath; we had a bunch of recycling so we didn't want to scare anyone.

The second video includes shots of the patio where we've done our fair share of grilling and eating outside in the spring, summer and fall months. Also shots of the garden out back as well as playground for the community.

At the end of the second and longest video is a shot of the lake about 50m out our front window. We will definitely miss our walks and runs by the lake!!!

Sunday afternoon hikes

One thing we have really come to love about where we live in Switzerland is the number of walking/hiking trails that surround us. Most weekends, if the weather is agreeable, we try to find the time to get outside and soak up the fresh air, green grass and beautiful scenery.

An area that has become a favourite of ours is called the Horgenberg, and it is just about a 10 minute drive from our house. Jared loves to go up and run the trails and the girls and I love to just get out and walk and roll in the sweet grass. Here are some pictures.

Geneva car show - March 15th, 2008

In March of every year at the Geneva International Motor Show, the world's leading automakers cram into seven exhibition halls totaling over 330,000 square feet. It is Europe's first auto show of the year and features the latest models stretching the gamut from Maserati and Ferrari to Ford and GM (Ford and GM are doing quite well in Europe despite piling up the losses in the US).


Geneva is about a 3.5 hour train from Zurich. We've done this train a few times. However, we can never get enough of the last part of the ride into Geneva, the train breaks suddenly out of a long tunnel, you are greeted with a view across the wine vineyards flowing down a steep incline into Lake Geneva and then you realize across the lake are the impressive French Alps. We are definitely soaking things in more acutely as we get closer to leaving. We will definitely be homesick for awhile when we get back to the US.

We got the girls up early (630a ... arrrhhh!) and hopped aboard.

There was a great mix of interesting concept cars such as this one from Toyota as well as "sehr cool, Euro supermodels.







The Indians from Tata Motors rolled out the new $2,000 people mover which is going to revolutionize the streets of Delhi and Bombay by putting car ownership within the reach of 1 billion plus Indians. Not sure I'd want to pile in ... might give it a few years to prove out the safety record!!!










The whole family had a great time and even got to do a little fantasizing






Here are some more pictures of the show (CLICK on the SPEAKER ICON ON THE BOTTOM LEFT of the SLIDES for the appropiately selected accompaniment "Chasing Cars")