"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." - Carol Nelson

We had a couple of vouchers for a free game of bowling, so we decided to go on Christmas this weekend. The bowling place is all the way on the other side of town, so we hopped on the bus, switched buses, and finally made it there almost an hour later. When we got there, however, we realized that our vouchers didn’t work for Sunday afternoons. Like everything in Switzerland, it took us two tries to figure it out. We had an air hockey tournament on Sunday instead (John won), and then went back for bowling on Monday (Danielle won… by a lot).

On Monday evening, we headed to Ikea to purchase a bookcase for the big empty wall we had in our apartment. We accidentally also bought several other items, which made for a heavy bag plus the bookcase, all to carry home on the bus. And our bus driver was the speediest, jerkiest driver we have had to date, which is saying a lot in Geneva. The bookshelf and us went flying all over the bus. We then carried it the rest of the way home on our shoulders. That was fun.

On Tuesday, the last day of our Christmas vacation, we went snowboarding! We didn’t bring a camera since we were nervous we would fall on it, but it was absolutely beautiful. We went to a resort in France called Flaine and boarded right next to Mont Blanc in sunshiny, 38 degree Fahrenheit weather on decent snow. We had lunch outside at the top of the world with a view of the Alps. That really was fun.