Alpenhorns!

Kate is normally not a very demanding person. But a few weeks ago, she was driving me crazy.

"Why aren't there any good places around here to hear some alpenhorn music?" she would ask.

Or, "How come we just can't seem to find any good alpenhorn CDs? It just sounds better in person." On and on it went.

A few days went by when I realized that we were thankfully only a few hours away from

alpenhorn central. So we made plans for a musical weekend in the Swiss Alps where we could hopefully find some melodic mountain dwellers (as well as some cheese and good hiking paths for me).

And boy did we succeed!

Here's our attempt at a family photo on our first hike to get to those heavenly horns. The best part is not the ridiculous looks on all of our faces or the fact that we completed missed getting the mountains in the background. It's that Pecos is being squished and poked ... and yet manages to keep it together for the only nice smile in the bunch.

And here they are!

Not impressed? I guess you had to be there. Or not. They really weren't that impressive.

We also tried to get Elizabeth in front of a background that looked fake...just for her Gigi, who still thinks the photo we took in front of the Picos de Europa was fake. Here's our best shot, on the train up to Kleiner Scheidegg.

Here are some other attempts.

Oh and here's Elizabeth's first taste of sauerkraut.

And finally, here's a family photo outtake.