Weekend in Switzerland - Part 2 - Lauterbrunnen

After our time in Lucern, we headed into the mountains up to Brunig pass and then down towards Interlaken. We then headed into the Lauterbrunnen Valley where we had rented an apartment for 2 nights. We checked in and the kids spent the next hour exploring our apartment. They looked in every nook and cranny, and ran from room to room. I even gave them the camera and they took pictures of everything! (I'll only post a few)
The kitchen and one of the kid's rooms with bunk beds.

Syd checking out what is behind this door on the balcony and a great photo of Becki and Shannon in their room.


The view from our apartment...we were on the top floor and had balconies off of both sides, and windows with views on the other sides.

View to the North down the main street of Lauterbrunnen and to the South into the valley (due to the clouds we never did see the mountains above the valley....we did see fresh SNOW though up on the cliffs - it is JUNE isn't it??)

The Staubbach waterfall and a glimpse of Swiss countryside.

The little church in the heart of town was right next to us. We heard the church bells several times chime throughout the day...the church steeple was under construction otherwise it would have made a great photo (our Christmas picture was taken with that church in the background last year). Here we are in front of the place where we stayed.

Due to the rainy weather - we were glad we had rented the apartment and had so much space -since we spent a good amount of our time for the next 2 days inside!! Fortunately we had a living room with a TV and so hung out watching World Cup soccer and playing cards!

I seem to have quite a few pictures of us hanging out and holding Shelby...

If anything we had plenty of quality family time!!!!

Silas playing around with dad!

One story that I really need to tell is about the kids (Sydney, Shaylee, and Silas) locking themselves in one of the rooms. When they were exploring the apartment they discovered that each of the rooms had skeleton keys in the doors. At one point (shortly after our arrival) the kids were running and chasing eachother from room to room. Sydney and Shaylee and Silas were sharing a room and didn't want Shane in their room - so they went inside, shut the door, and locked it to keep Shane out. Well the skeleton key didn't fit in the door the best and it was a bit tricky to turn, Sydney locked it - but then couldn't unlock it. She of course started to panic...we spent the next 1/2 hour trying to calm her down and have her try to turn the key and unstick the lock. We ended up having her hand the key out the window to us (fortunately the windows on one side of the building were pretty close together) and we were able to unlock the door from the hall side. We then took the keys out of the locks and made them off limits! We had no futher issues and do believe Sydney will think twice before locking a door again!