When I knew I wanted us to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary by offering the family a trip with UnTours, I polled the UnTours staff for the best location for children. Their response was Switzerland. Our two weeks there proved them so right.
Here's how Switzerland is for children.
Gondola and cable car travel to mountain tops. Here we are headed to Alpen Tower which looks down on the valley where Meiringen is situated.
Snowballs to throw on mountain tops.
Toys! Even Dan had fun.
Tree houses and play grounds.
Even Emily had to try this one.
Grills everywhere to warm you up when you're cold or make lunch.
Very fun trails like this Maze Trail. Everyone got a ball to send down the mazes along this trail.
Lakes and pools to swim in.
Here at Thun Lake on a warm day but the water was still very cold.
Ruins to explore like Resti Tower. in Meiringen
And caves, too. This was St. Beatus Cave.
Castles like Oberhofen.
This one had a special activity for kids to find a mouse hidden in the castle and different places. There was also a ghost.
Boat trips on the lakes. This trip across Thun Lake was from the castle to Speiz to catch the train back to Meiringen.
Special hikes in the rain like the one through the Aare Gorge.
Learning about cheese making - a favorite food of granddaughters at Ballenberg Swiss Open Air Museum.
More toys and Matt had to try this.
More gondola rides to the top of Schilthorn.
And more playgrounds. I think the granddaughters tried every one of them in town.
Bouldering walls.
And of course ice cream sundaes!
So as you can see we made lots and lots of memories.
