Just getting started -- working out the bugs and living in Switzerland

I am new at blogging. Likely the back drop I choose is stupid and I am doing this all wrong -- I'll work it out but in the meantime this is just a thing meant to help keep in-touch with you all back home who I love and miss.

So we're here a week and these are just a few of my observations thus far --

I smell different here than back in Baltimore. Its not good but its not "bad-bad" either.
Heavy, musky -- but not fried fair onion or dirty hot dog water.
Deodorant cost more here....

The water taste awesome. We keep joking that it's Evian straight from the tap! But this actually could be true (?) I don't know. I can't read anything yet.

Everything here is different -- in mostly awesome ways.
Its like there are no rules or laws but everyone behaves anyway.
It is not the States but at the same time it is a lot like Baltimore in ways of diversity, culture, art, (minus the crime).
Though from my third floor apartment, I did spy three kids angrily destroy one of those little rollie-scooters by throwing it down our very steep street. That's kinda like Hampden. But in Hampden I wouldn't think twice about being forward and saying "Cut it out and go home" but here, I just slinked back from the window, afraid they would yell at me in French, or Italian, or worse...German. And in my head, since they'd know where I live, they'd bring back cartons of eggs and egg-me -- Though eggs are pretty expensive here, so it's likely my paranoia.

People say things like "Do you do sport?!"
Everyone smokes. I'd say that 87% of the people here are in shape, good-looking and they all smoke and lay naked in the sun for hours. I don't know yet how that works.
There is also something called "a swiss butt".
I want one.

Maybe it has something to do with the water -- maybe the body odor is the first step in my transformation. Maybe I'll be tan and apart of the 87% before we come back in a year.

...swiss butt.

I'ma post this now and see how she goes.

love, Suisse Lopo,
Hillbilly of the Alps

My husband makes a telling and unflattering photo of me after our 15 hour journey. 

We rode our bikes through the city of Lausanne and within 7miles we were in Cully. The vineyard and lake go on forever (and the party never ends).

Lake Léman

Cully -- you can sit in a couch-tent like thing and drink five dollar water and we did until we got $10 beer but only one ...b/c its ten dollar beer.

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