6/23/14: we said goodbye to our family friends at breakfast and then packed up the rental car to head to our next destination. It would be approximately a five hour drive using the various toll roads, but our family friends suggested an alternate route that was much more scenic and would add about an hour to the journey. This sounded good to all of us, so we went on our way.
"Scenic" was the understatement of the year. The route took us through northern Italy, over the Alps into Austria, and then finally to our destination in Switzerland. I took hundreds of (terrible) photos with my phone's camera, but I could have taken hundreds more, because there was never a time when the scenery wasn't breathtaking. (Cue "The hills are alive with the sound of music...")
"About an hour longer" was also the understatement of the year. The five hour drive turned into an eight hour drive. Driving through the small villages and up and down the mountains (sometimes in a parade of cars crawling behind a tour bus or 18-wheeler) added quite a bit of time to the trip. Then late in the afternoon, the storms came in again, just as we were descending from the Alps. With nerves of steel, my patient, long-suffering husband drove us through the storms and into St. Gallen, Switzerland just in time for a late dinner at the hotel before we collapsed into bed.
Looking forward to a day of sightseeing tomorrow. My foot is starting to protest a little more loudly each day and the rain hasn't helped, but it's still manageable. As long as we don't have to hike over the Alps with our singing children in tow while being chased by Nazis, I'll be fine.
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