Bidding summer adieu

We were in the Swiss Alps for an extended weekend in mid September. We spent our days mainly walking through the small beautiful villages inhaling fresh Alpine oxygen, enjoying the amazing beauty of the place and also as always trying out all the local specialities of the place. More about this in another post.

 Our treks took us to the beautiful Alpine village of Bönigen and we were lucky to be part of a yearly local tradition. As autumn slowly sets in in the moutains, the farmers bring their cows down from the mountains to lower lands where it a lot warmer.

The cows and other cattle are all beautifully decorated and there is a procession through the entire village which ends in a large open meadow.

 

 Here the cows can freezly graze when the rest of the village celebrates with Alphorn music, sale of locally produced cheese and food.

 We were indeed lucky that we got to experience this whole event of bidding a warm adieu to summer.

Stockbrot and Marshmallows

Well summer days are meant for toasting almost everything on a nice campfire.

Little bunny's friend's parents invited all of us over to their nice farm house nestled nicely into the border of the nearby forest.

A lovely green space indeed where the kids could run, play in the sand pits, eat wild berries and fruits. But I think the best part of the evening was when Mr. V cut up some wood to get the bonfire going.

After that all the kids got to create their own stockbrot which is a clump of bread dough at the tip of a nice long stick and toast it directly on the fire.

I also enjoyed some nice warm toasted marshmallows.

With friends at the Lions club meet in Limburgerhof

In the beginning of August our friends A and G invited us to the lions club meet in the little town of Limburgerhof. This town is really a very small town close to the city of Ludwigshafen.

It was a lovely summers day and it was a perfect time to catch up with the lovely couple B & M as well. B is an American settled in Germany for the last 14 years and it is always fun to hear him speak perfect German with that little American twist.



Little bunny had lot of fun dancing to the live open air jazz that played some very lively numbers.She even convinced them to play a piece just for her. She always seems to be getting her way with people.

A special request from little bunny

She loved dancing and the music group loved her

From G's shoulder she always has a vantage view of everything