WEEK FORTY FIVE:

Monday, June 21

Bern, Switzerland.

Tuesday, June 22

The Vitrahaus. The architecture here is remarkable. Work from Gehry and many others. The Vitrahause itself is loaded with contemporary and modern furniture design. Ispiring. I mean, look at this bench. It is a part of the buildings' wall. How genius is that?

Wednesday, June 23

Is this the most amazing and breathtaking view or what?


Thursday, June 24
The Freitag store in Zurich, Switzerland. An up-and-coming design giant. Check them out at www.freitag.ch you won't regret it.

Friday, June 25

Sadly, our last official day for the design thinking program, but we weren't going to let that get us and our mustaches down.

Saturday, June 26

The Matterhorn. Absolutely incredible.

Sunday, June 27

Switzerland is a funny place. It is spectacularly beautiful in its architecture, art, design, history, landscape and yes, its graffiti. It's seriously everywhere. And somehow, maybe because it's more about art than vandalism, it just blends in with the beauty of the country (well, in 9.5 out of 10 cases anyhow).

WEEK FOURTY FOUR:

Monday, June 14

Anthroposophical Museum stairway.

Tuesday, June 15

Brainstorming and Design Thinking for a project.

Wednesday, June 16

Fribourg, Switzerland from the top of a nearly 1,000 year old cathedral.

Thursday, June 17

Rolex Learning Center.

This entire building is shaped like Swiss cheese basically. Google it and see how amazing it is. Really. Google it. Now.

Friday, June 18

Spiez Castle.

Saturday, June 19

This is what Switzerland makes you feel like.

Sunday, June 20

Father's Day.

Since I was away from my father today and my daughter, I thought today would be pretty hard. Thankfully, I had a reason to forget about myself.

I met a friend here on my study abroad trip-Mandy. Her dad served part of his mission in a city called Lugano and it apparently was one of his favorite areas. From where we are it is about a six hour train ride one way to reach Lugano. Not close. Mandy told some of us the other day that she wanted to make the trek out there and get some photos of her in Lugano, print them, frame them and give them to her dad for Father's Day. When I heard this idea, I almost teared up because I thought how much I would appreciate the same gift from my daughter. And I knew I had become part of this epic journey. And it was epic. Here's just a sampling from today's epicness. And yes, the 12+ hours on the train were awesome.

WEEK FORTY THREE:

A quick side note:

With how busy I find myself while away, I don't have much time to dedicate to the description of each photo. Please don't mind the small description for each.

Monday, June 7
Castle ruins in Sion, Switzerland.

Tuesday, June 8

The Valley of Death just before the St. Bernard Monestary/Hospice.

If you look close in the bottom right corner there are little dots trailing up the side-those are people hiking!


Wednesday, June 9

Reflection.



Thursday, June 10
The old morgue at St. Bernard. There are still bodies in there!

Friday, June 11

The Dying Lion monument. Spectacular.

Saturday, June 12

Cowfights. The "humane," form of cow fighting. The cows are not provoked at all, it is more of a hormonal and instinctive thing that makes them want to dual. It's a big deal here. After months of competing, the finalists compete for a grand prize of over 40,000 Francs.

Sunday, June 13

Evyoire, France. Beautiful.

WEEK FORTY TWO:

Friday, June 4

Honestly, I can't get this dumb picture to move down and I'm way too busy right now to mess around with it, so here it is, out of order.

This is in the NJ Newark Airport. It is the only good thing about that horrid place.

Ok, forgive my backwards week, but I started this post in the good 'ole USA and am finishing it in Switzerland and I really don't feel up to moving the images around. So here we are:

Sunday, June 6

Chateau de Chillon castle. One of the best-preserved castles in Europe from the thirteenth century. It was amazing. Here Lord Byron wrote The Prisoner of Chillon.

Saturday, June 5

An image from our hike not long after arriving in Switzerland. Breathtaking.

Thursday, June 3

Yes, I am aware that the picture is "blank." But really, it is black. And it is intentional. With a new life about to start, it felt very fitting to have a black photograph. At the beginning and end of everything (in my mind), it is always black. And Thursday was the end of my life for a while and the beginning of a new life (albiet temporary) in Switzerland.

Wednesday, June 2 The other day while walking to the car, a bat just fell from the sky. It scarred me and I jumped like a real big sissy.

Tuesday, June 2

A semi-new restaurant in Smithfield. It took the place of my favorite bbq place ever-Eddy's BBQ. This new place is pretty good though and despite the name, there is a lot more than you'd think to choose from.

Monday, June 1

Memorial Day. A beautiful day.

WEEK FORTY ONE:

Monday, May 24
More Logan randomness in the weather this week.
Looking at the mountainside cracked me up. Beautiful, lush green leading up to a stark white from the freshly fallen May 24th snow storm.

Tuesday, May 25
Mmm...cashew chicken.

Wednesday, May 26
Sometimes there's a photograph right under our feet.
While taking a break from punching numbers at work, I went outside to walk for a moment and found the cracks in the dry (for once) ground and really appreciated the chaotic pattern of sorts they created.

Thursday, May 27
On my way to one of my orientation classes for the Switzerland trip these flowers caught my attention because of their amazing smell. Even though it didn't feel anything like spring outside, at least it smelled like it!

Friday, May 28
In case you couldn't already tell, we had spaghetti for dinner.
It's funny, lately Cambria has been doing this funny smiley-scowl and it cracks us up.

Saturday, May 29
I quickly designed and threw together these to use as luggage tags for my Switzerland study abroad that is coming up THIS week!

Sunday, May 30
A nice, leisurely Sunday with Grandpa Archie.