Laowai

Have you noticed there are just not enough pictures of mountains and cows and cheese and chocolate on this web site lately? Well, Brian and I were finding that to be a real problem. Too much boring domestic content for my beloved (three) readers. So we’re making a big change – this blog will once again be filled with photos of one of the happiest places on earth – no, not Disney… Switzerland. Stay tuned for remarkable photos of clean trains, neatly stacked piles of recyclables and grimacing Brian aboard cable cars. My blog’s title will once again align with my life – Laowai – a foreigner. 

OK… that’s not really the story is it. The truth is Brian loves Switzerland and I opened the door a centimeter and suddenly we were making plans to move again. It will be for three years, we will keep our house in the US. Brian will move at the beginning of June and the girls and I will join him at the end of July. The first thing we did was to get the girls into an international school. And then over the girls’ Spring Break Brian and I went apartment hunting. We told the girls about the move when we returned. It’s really happening – I’m still getting used to the idea.

So here are some photos:

The girls will attend the same school next year:

And then Bea will move up to the middle school:

We looked at a bunch of apartments and just found out on Monday that we are going to get the one that Brian and I both liked. In Switzerland you can get turned down when you try to rent an apartment. Brian and I could not agree on our second choice so I’m super relieved we didn’t have to work that out. Our new home will be across Lake Zurich from our old place. We’ll have a lovely view of the lake and mountains with vineyards surrounding one side of the apartment.

Brian and I landed in the morning ready to look at apartments. We were greeted with the most beautiful Spring day.

Brian is very excited to live and work in Zurich again. As much as I love Switzerland – I am taking my time getting used to the idea that we are leaving our home in the US. And of course it is a huge change for our girls. They both cried when we broke the news, but they have also been super curious about their new school and our apartment. 

It will be an adventure!