Showing posts with label waterfall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waterfall. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Mum-Poc Visit Part III

Last Leg Standing




"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of other things. Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings."
It was depressing as a child to see the walrus having devoured those innocently cute oysters. They were lured away never to see their mother/grandma again! What tragedy in childrens' films. I suppose you have to learn it sometime.
Above photo: Mum, Cyril & Meinrad (Cyril's dad)



My new favorite way of sightseeing: boat cruise!


City of Konstanz, Germany


Our boat trip: Kreuzlingen, CH on the Bodensee (Lake Constance),
into the Rhein River to Schaffhausen, CH.
I just spent 10+ minutes looking for a map, but got nothing.


Windy & cold on deck!


Sitting in the warm, drinking tea, watching the scenery go by.


Just to clarify once more, it was windy and cold.
Cyril seems to be loving it.


Erin "Lazy Eye" Stodola, hello.


Nature, hello.


The bridge went flying over our heads.


Deserted streets of Schaffhausen.
Switzerland was playing that day...


This way to...


WATERFALL


The Rheinfall.


You don't want to go rafting here.




Patience pays off.
We waited 15 hours for another group to get out of our shot,
and in the end they offered to take a picture.


It was mighty powerful and mighty misty.


My girls.
I was crouching, that's why I look like the shortest one...
(PS, who looks like who?)


Well my little oysters, the time has come to get grillin'! There will be no oysters involved in this meal, you can be sure of that.
Till next time, find the person on the bus with a smile on his face for no apparent reason and realise you should be doing the same.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

May Fair

No Time For Chit-Chat, Ladies





That being said, I have been casually slouching for the past hour and a half. So when I laced my fingers together behind my back and lifted my arms up, Old Bessy cracked about 14 times. I am not sitting straight like a proper lady.
That also being said, I ate part of a worm that was inside a potato the other day. I didn't taste it at all and as my mum always says, "more protein for the vegetarian, Erin!" Nice topic for chit-chatting, non?

Above photo, Lake of Thun & Spiez on a stormy Mother's Day.



Sometimes I feel like a mother, so I was relaxing too.


Then the storm rolled in.


My boy, goofing off.


Other boy.
And I would say he's also goofing off in those shades,
only I had told him to put them on,
so really he was just doing what he was asked. Angel.




The view from my window.


Jacques and Vanessa's Aunt's Russian cat.


Birthday Girl, snuggling with the gamer guitar.


Massive avocado!


21!




Deserted tram on the way home from Fabian's.


Cyril's dad, Meinrad, his mum and Cyril.


We had a nice lunch with Grandma.


Driving through the mountains!


Father and Son


Waterfall! I forget the name.


Lake of Thun from the castle in Spiez.


At the castle.


Church.


In the rose garden.


What you find in the rose garden. What a mystery...


My mummy & sister are coming today! I hope they will be enchanted by my Swiss life.
Peace out, homies.