The Real Matterhorn and a Terrific Dinner

One last post before we leave... we actually saw the Matterhorn! We were headed out to dinner, and stopped to talk to the man running our hotel. We were telling him about our hike and how we had only wished for better weather and to catch a glimpse of the Matterhorn. He told us to look out the window, and sure enough, the clouds had cleared long enough for us to see it. We ran upstairs and grabbed our camera and snapped a few pictures. Do you know that just a few minutes later, the clouds had covered it up again? But we saw it, and that made us both so happy. It looks just like the Matterhorn at Disneyland! ;-) Hopefully we will be able to post pictures again soon. The computers we've run into lately are sealed inside boxes, so we have no access to the necessary port.

After our elation at viewing the Matterhorn, we went for our final Swiss dinner... at a Japanese restaurant! :-) And it was another fabulous meal. We laughed at howour two best meals here were the pizza in Bern, and now the Japanese food in Zermatt. I don't know if we mentioned that we did have the traditional fondue on our last night in Lauterbrunnen, and that was also a very delicious meal.

I think the best part of this trip has been the time spent together, just laughing and having fun together. We always say that we work hard, so we play hard, but it is amazing what a toll our jobs have taken on us the past two years. Today I said that I think we should write to Rick Steves and see if we can go work for him. Eric can lead the adventure tour group (mountain climbing, crazy death-type sky diving stuff) and I could lead the more mellow tour. We could move to Seattle, which is still cheaper than California, and just make a living off of traveling. Eric said to go for it. So I will have to think on how to compose that letter.... :-)