July 7 Church in Austria, Trammelbach Falls, Lindgern & Grindelwald Switzerland

We opted to go to church this morning. But, had a difficult time finding a ward that met either on route or close by that met at a time that would work in with our travel schedule. So, we opted to backtrack a little bit to Austria and attend a German speaking ward. It covered German speakers from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. We loaded up the van and had a little difficulty finding it. There was no parking - but the building was recognizable :-) Four women visitors in Relief Society took them off guard. None of us spoke German - but the 2 sister missionaries translated for us. The conversations, experiences and concerns were the same as you here back home. Of course, the church is world wide - but still small, in that you could find connections to people you know.

loading up the van

church building in Austria

Lunch stop along the road in Lindgern Switzerland - we had a picnic at this spot. Pretty spectacular

Since the slopes are so steep - harvesting the hay is problematic. This guy has the hay delivered to the barn in the valley by HELICOPTER!! How cool is that. The little round white bales are stuff already delivered and wrapped up.

Naturfreundehaus, Grindelwald, Switzerland. Our family hostel for 2 days at the top of the hillside in town.

Drive from our hostel to Trammelbach

more of the beautiful scenery in this set of valleys

We were the last group to take the "elevator" up to the base of the waterfalls - much to the irritation of the ticket lady (who wanted to go home - lol). We had the place pretty much to ourselves. Once we had our fill, we hiked down along the pathways.

Just starting the hike into Trammelbach

Hee hee... Curtis is wearing a flag on his head ;-) Looking back on the valley as we climb to the falls

looking down into the falls 

Outside where the water finally exits the mountain at the base

Beautiful water falls everywhere around the rim of the shear mountains surrounding the valley. Just spectacular!!

Curtis carving me a walking stick that he collected outside of Trammelbach Falls in preparation for tomorrow's hike :-)

Awwww - even says SB + CW - but you can't read it too well in this picture.

Small narrow rooms  (really, you are seeing the whole thing!) but...

comes with THIS view outside our window!!