It Begins in Beautiful Switzerland

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Officially in Switzerland with Keane and Sarah :)
Attached is the spectacular view I woke up to this morning. We are staying in Leysin, Switzerland in their friend's chalet for the weekend.
After finally arriving yesterday to the airport, we drove to the Gruyere Cheese factory and went on a tour where the friendliest cow named Cherry spoke in our ear's about how the cheese is made. It was semi-creepy having a cow describe the process but at least she tried to be funny. Then we headed to the Cailler Chocolate factory for another tour, this one a little more in depth and fancy. Our group was shuffled through the most extensive disney land style exhibit of the history of chocolate. Cailler, Nestle and Kohler are companies that all work together. At the end there were samples.. and boy there were samples. You know when you gift a box of chocolates to somebody and it lasts them at least a week if not a month? We had to eat that whole box in 3 minutes. I'm not complaining about the chocolate... just the sickness afterward.
Fastforward to the Chalet and we took a beautiful walk through Leysin as the sun went down. I will post pictures when they are uploaded from Keane's camera. After some yummy fajitas I learned how to play Istanbul (the game not the place).
Quick synopsis of Saturday so that the blog is up to date. So far so fun. :)
I love being here and being able to see my brother and sister in law!
Now to head to a coffee shop to stare at the mountains and go from there.
(Shout out to Matt for tying the knot yesterday. Hope it went swell!)

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