Chamonix, France - Days 2 and 3

We were too tired yesterday to post anything from the hotel last night. Yesterday was a busy, yet very rewarding day. This morning we got up at 6am and were out of the hotel by 7am or so. We then stopped in a parking lot in Chamonix under the Augille du Midi and had a quick breakfast of some leftover baguette, cheese and sausage plus a banana thrown in for a little healthy balance. This was also a good spot to let Osu do his morning thing before we hit the road.

So, we just got home a short while ago after 10 hours or so on the road. We took a different route back and the scenery was AMAZING through the northern reaches of France and and all of Switzerland. We made a lot of stops to take pictures, check out the scenery and to stretch our legs in the warm and sunny Alps. The drive back was great until we hit Germany. It's always kind of a bummer to spend time in places that are so beautiful only to drive back to the Ohio-esque looking lands of Germany. It kind of deflates you and makes us wish that somehow we could find work someplace in the Alps. The only consolation is that we can drive as fast as we want on the Autobahn making a blur of the farmlands on the way home.

We are busy downloading our pictures now and should have some posted soon. We will give a full report on our trip in the coming days if and when we have any downtime. Not likely with the events coming up, but we will try!

*Update - Dawn and I took over 1600 pictures in three days between the two of us! We're leisurely going through them now before bed. It's going to be a while before we get through them all. The two I've posted caught my eye as I was going through them and I thought I'd put them up with minimal processing. The top one is of the Aiguille du Midi and the one below is from the top of the du Midi of some climbers early in the morning. More to come soon!