Home again from the chalet in Chateau d'Oex

We're back from our trip to the mountains...left the chalet at 7.35pm last night after giving the girls pasta for dinner. While they ate I cleaned and MK packed. Only took us 1hr 10mins to get home (via Bulle, near Gruyere).

Yesterday after our yummy fondue lunch the girls played in the park out the front of the restaurant. Then we went for a walk down to the river Sarine. Girls had fun throwing pebbles and stones into the fast flowing river. When we got back we did some shopping at Coop (just before 5pm by then which is when the shops close, and Monday is a public holiday so I needed supplies) and picked up our souvenirs from Le Chalet, the restaurant we had lunch.

Souvenirs? We haven't really bought souvenirs for ourselves in the last 5 years. But in Gstaad the other day I bought a small metal house plate that says 'bienvenue' and a doormat that says 'Famille de Maison'. Then yesterday at the restaurant we bought a real cow bell (gasp!) and a framed print of a landscape with cows. We are still very conscious of getting this stuff home so I'll be very interested to see what the quote is on Tuesday from the two moving companies that are coming round. But if we don't buy some stuff now we won't have any Swiss stuff to take home (other than Charlotte!).

On Friday we walked into Chateau d'Oex and up to the church on the hill. We wanted to have fondue for lunch but Le Chalet had a large group in and it was an hour wait. Instead we went to La Poste which Marlene (upstairs tenant in Stephanie's chalet) had recommended. Food was good and there was a playroom downstairs for the girls.

We then caught the GoldenPass Panoramic train from Chateau d'Oex to Zweisimmen. It took an hour and was really gorgeous. The scenery was breathtaking. We had just under an hour in Zweisimmen (a place I'd never heard of and it's not that big) to walk around before we caught the GoldenPass train back to Chateau d'Oex.