A CHEESE THEME

There seemed to be a vein of cheese running through our vacation days. We had raclette three times and fondue twice. The girls and I had a running joke about keeping Daddy from going overboard buying cheese every time we went to the grocery store.

Here we are on the first night in our little chalet. How many rental places come with raclette grills and fondue pots – well probably lots in Switzerland I guess.

A couple days later we had fondue at a restaurant:

We noticed that you can buy cheese and other dairy products in a vending machine at the train station:

More cheese – cute package:

One day we went for a completely cheese themed hike. You can borrow a backpack in the town where we stayed and in the backpack is everything you need to have a fondue feast at the top of a mountain – inside a wooden fondue pot! So we started off with a gondola ride.

We had crummy weather but it didn’t slow us down. We just couldn’t see the big mountains in the distance.

When we stepped off the gondola cows were there to greet us.

When we’re in Switzerland I get very excited about cows. Look at those fuzzy ears. They were very animated that day.

There’s our destination – a wooden fondue pot.

That was fun! Even the girls loved the cheese.

With our bellies full of cheese we headed back.

More cows – you hear the tinkle gong sound of the cow bells as you walk along. Most of the cows are sweet and some just look up at you when you walk by. The girls thought it was funny that one of the cows threatened to charge us. She was just a bit grouchy so we gave her some space.