Sunday, October 14, 2007

Good Times with Matt & Jill

On the way to Munich... Jill and Matt kick back and relax.

Kent and I are extremely jetlagged in this picture, but you can't tell. This is Zurich right near where Jill and Matt's awesome apartment is. Isn't it beautiful?? The Limmat River flows throug town and Jill/Matt's apartment is right there. Zurich is beautiful and interesting. It's where the DaDa artist movement was founded. Zurich also boasts the largest clock face in the world... bigger than Big Ben. You can see it behind us. But most importantly, Zurich is home to the University that first shunned Albert Einstein, then welcomed him with open arms to teach others. He later fled to America after the start of WW II.
Matt, Jill and a friend, Dave, all pose outside the Hofbrauhaus. This is where you can enjoy beer, sausage, amazing pretzels. It is also the home to where Adolf Hitler started his "grassroots" propaganda meetings. He picked beer halls to get his message out to the people and it caught on.
This is the view from atop Mount Pilatus in Lucerne, Switzerland. This view is 7,000 feet up. Lucerne is about an hour by train away from Zurich. Jill, Kent and I spent the day in Lucerne. Lucerne is the most photographed place in Switzerland.

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