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Ok we walk down to the farm. This is the highest farm on this side of the valley.
We sit and stare. There is a group of 3 women with 7 kids that are staying for 2 nites. Monica asks if dinner at 730 is okay.
The dark clouds have been building all day in the pass, that helped our decision to stay. After about 1 hr it starts to sprinkle, then rain,we all rush inside. Someone starts the woodstove. Great we only have shorts on.. Then the hail starts....we look out 2 guys with mountain bikes are coming in! OMG!
They're soaked. They are mountain biking over the pass....
We ask the moms and kids who are playing uno if we can join them.
Now all the kids 1 at a time say in English ( they all speak german, with some english)
"My name is______, I live in Switzerland"
They learn English in school, they are so happy to say this to English speakers.!! So of course I say My name is David and I live in Switzerland, and they all laugh..
We have a blast playing uno and joking with them...
Traditional Swiss dinner is served, family style:
Boiled fresh potatoes
A couple of slices of deli ham
Fresh carrot sticks
Pickled onions
Pickles
Creme fresche
Tiny slices of cheese in oil
Fresh cheese & last year's cheese
Water
We eat with the 2 bikers, laugh and talk, their English is good, our german is nine!
The rain has stopped
It's very pretty out, clouds are moving.
We bring the plates back to the farm house,
Do you want tea?
Sure
Now remember, all we have is our hiking clothes, wet,dried,wet,dried. And rain gear.
The tea is traded with the neighbor ( where evah she lives on this mountain)
For cheese. She collects 10 different kinds of wild mountain flowers and dries them..
It's delicious!
There's homemade brandy on the counter so we share shots of brandy and tell stories.
Liam Goes outside to smoke his pipe, and the grandad, sits with him, but Liam said he kept forgetting he didn't know german and kept trying to chat....
Up to bed, we go, Liam is asleep, before he lays down.
I think oh great,
we've been sleeping in the van, the bed is 5' x 6'. With Liam in there i sleep on the edge about 18" x 5'....this will be great I have 3 foam mattresses wide!!!!yahoo I can stretch out......
I wake up the next morning and realize I slept on about 18" of bed!!!!!
It's 5 am
Yes it's the not so pretty sound of the mountain bells on the cows in the barn below us clanging away getting milked..so much for sleeping in.
Monica said she'd be up at 630 if I wanted coffee. I was at her door at 631 with my rain gear on( cold out).
Breakfast is at 730
Cheese
Droed Goat sausage
Coffee
Warm fresh milk
Bread
Honey like stuff made from pine trees ( yum)
Marmalade
We eat
Off we go heading up to the pass, 2+ hours away...and it looks steep...