Easter near Eiger

Faced with free gas and two holidays to kill, Kate and I headed to Germany's southern neighbor for a bit of R&R Swiss style. We put the GTI to the test for the first time on the German Autobahn, flirting with its top speed (no comment for the sake of parental sanity) until the speed limit signs at the border (and the rumors of five-figure fines for speeding) brought us out of sixth gear to a leisurely 90 miles per hour.

The Alps greeted us from behind a blanket of haze, which had materialized from the unseasonably hot sun sizzling the snow-capped summits. We put our sport suspension to the test, braving the narrow switchbacks and loose stones on the ridge above to make it to our home base for the next three days: Beatenberg.

Interlaken, Bern, Basel, Kandersteg, Brienz, and all the roads in between - thanks to our new GPS (who we named Betty on account of the annoying female British voice telling us to watch our speed), we were able to pack in a hefty number of destinations in those three days. The pictures tell the rest.

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30

Kate got me. I guess when you turn 30, you let your guard down a little. That's the only way I can explain how she totally sideswiped me with a surprise birthday party. I had just come from a work-related event in Sardinia and wasn't expecting a thing. Somehow Kate got me to recommend that we take a look at a bowling alley in town...when I saw all the folks there, I thought we had stumbled upon someone else's party...my first reaction was: "and they didn't even invite us!" What a sucker!

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