The Bus!

Unfortunately there is no picture for this post. I was on the bus this morning complaining to a gentleman that our new bus driver is horrible! You know, the kind that never keeps a constant speed by pressing the gas every half second! Plus he literally slams on the breaks exactly at the actual bus stop - not a normal few seconds before the stop. SO, after my complaint, we are approaching the next stop, driver slams on the breaks and I literally went airborne and flew back 2 feet! I don't think I've been airborne like that since I flew off the handle bars when I was a kid. Fortunately I landed on a sharp corner right into the muscle in my back. This was not awesome. I can't even begin to tell you how embarrassing this was. There must be 40 people on this bus, three of which all grabbed an arm, leg or whatever they could grab to try and help me up! This happened to me my first day on the bus and I vowed to never let it happen again, but it did! I'm sitting at my computer right now and feel like I have an axe in my back! Horrid! Stupid bus...

Vevey, Switzerland

Getting up for this day trip was a little difficult based on the party we went to last night. I was offered a margarita and when I took a sip, I thought maybe someone tried to poison me. I felt the alcohol travel through the rest of my organs. After half a glass I couldn't feel my legs so I changed to wine. Unfortunately Brian did not. We found out that the people who made the margaritas had ZERO margarita mix. The concoction consisted of Tequila (90%), lime juice (5%) and water (5%). SSSickkkkk! Anyway, we went to Vevey for the day which is only 1 hr away. We ate lunch at this restaurant on the mountain top. It was amazing and the food was great - minus the 22 dollar bloody mary Brian had! Lesson learned, don't order a drink until you know the price! Ha! We have lots of beautiful mountain scape's that we will be sending on as well. I might post just a mountain pic above this post to show everyone. I thought we should post at least one picture of us since we have not done that yet. After 9 years of being together, we are finally taking pictures of other things besides just "dena & brian poses" for each shot (my father-in-law should be so proud). Love to everyone!

Last Night of the Festival

These fireworks put Penfield, and better yet, Washington DC fireworks to shame! Just amazing! They were right over Lake Geneva and were choreographed to music and were over an hour long. Just amazing. We plan to send these pictures and a few grand finale videos as soon as Bri figures out why snapfish won't work lately. We went for drinks with a few friends and caught a late dinner at the "Chicken place" called Chez Ma. We plan to visit the Swiss Rivera on Saturday for a day trip. There is a restaurant at the top of a mountain called Le Patio. Apparently you have a view of the valleys, mountainous ranges and vineyards. We heard the brunch her is fantastic and quite pricey, but so is everything else, so we don't really care. We also plan to visit Barcelona and Paris the following few weekends, so more pics to come! We miss everyone and can't wait for visitors!

Old Town - Place du Bourg-de-Four

Last night Brian and I went to a bar in Old Town called the Demi Lune Cafe. Nice bar that only serves one kind of beer and you can get a "Beef burger with fromage". A co-worker of mine was celebrating a Birthday and we had a good time. We left at 11:30 and thought we really rallied, but I found out the next morning that most of the people were out until 2-4am! In Delaware on Wednesday we would have eaten dinner while watching Seinfeld, continued to watch more TV and then upstairs around 9:30. Of course Brian would be ironing and I would be getting ready for "Nelly White's Party". For those of you who do not know what that is - it's bedtime clothes or jammies! We were going to go to Interlaken, which is a 3 hour train ride from Geneva, but the weather is not going to be nice. Interlaken is known for their lakeside setting and magnificent Jungfrau & Eiger Mountains. If the weather is not clear, you miss a lot of the views. The ending of the festival is this Saturday and there are supposed to be millions of dollars worth of fireworks. We will take pictures for the next post!

Fêtes de Genève - Geneva Festival

Brian and I went to the Festival last night and met up with a few friends. The festival is every August and starts after the 1st. August 1st in Switzerland is the equivalent to July 4th in the US. The festival has tons of vendors for food and drink, carnivals rides (which is not my thing) and music concerts.
It is so hilarious how American music influences other places. We heard a band last night play 70s disco music and people were getting down! And of course there is always a Bon Jovi song to enjoy, a little ACDC (which Bri loves) and a DJ at the end that plays just dance tunes - total Dance-offs with the locals. You would have loved it!!!
We had a bit too much last night as Brian is still sleeping and it is 1:45pm GVA time!! Prior to going to the festival, we had a bottle of wine , special cheeses, salami and spicy mustard. My favs (cheese and italian meats) are so good over here! We were planning to travel somewhere in Switzerland today, but think we are just going to go to the local markets, do some shopping and eat!!! We eat out a lot here. So expensive, but it is about the experience, right? You will know what we are talking about when you come to visit! That's all for now. love, dena xoxo