After our Italy adventure and three days back in Lausanne catching up on work and laundry and sleep, we noticed that we were in for a few days of gorgeous weather, so we headed to the Matterhorn!
We took the train from Lausanne to Zermatt (the town at the base of the Matterhorn). Zermatt is a super cute, no-car village with tons of little hotels, restaurants, and shops.
The Matterhorn is in the Pennine Alps. As we walked from the train station to our hotel, we wondered which one of the dramatic peaks around us was the Matterhorn.
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| Is the Matterhorn one of those peaks in the background? |
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| Oh, that's the Matterhorn! Hard to miss, once you look in the right direction! |
The photos don't do it justice, but in person it's easy to see why there's so much romance attached to this particular mountain.
We rode gondolas into the mountains, to the Glacier Palace, which is a visitors' area carved into a real, live glacier.
The gondolas were packed with skiers as there is skiing here year round.
The Glacier Palace had ice sculptures and an ice slide. It was cold, but spectacular.
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| Matthew on the ice slide |
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| Christopher on the ice slide |
Mark and I went on the ice slide, too. No photos available.
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| The Matterhorn from an observation deck in the mountains |
On our way down from the Glacier Palace, we stopped and played in the snow.
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| Making a snow man |
The next day we hiked a bit under the Matterhorn before catching the train back to Lausanne.
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| Having a chat with a sheep on the trail. |
Alvederzein, Matterhorn!
All in all, a pretty good fall break. Now it's back to school and work.
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