Let it Snow!

Snow finally arrived in Lausanne!  We had been enjoying the relatively mild weather but, after all, snow is what you think of when you think of December in Switzerland!  While we had seen snow on a couple of our mountain excursions, we had yet to see it here in town -- until a few days ago.

We got a chance to go sledding at Mon Repos, Lausanne's main park, just a few blocks from our apartment.

Twilight sledding at Mon Repos

And the boys made snow men (bonhomme de neige, as they say here) in the back yard.

Alas, the snow did not last.  The temperature is back into the low 40s.  The remains of our snowmen are still in the yard, but only barely.  Christmas won't be white, at least not in this part of Switzerland.