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Interior of Lausanne Cathedral.

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Rose Window, Lausanne Cathdral

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Lausanne, with Lake Geneva and French Alps in the background

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Lausanne Cathedral, with cobblestone from the old city streets

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Market Day, Lausanne

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The fountain just outside the conference hall.

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Lake Geneva and French Alps

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Moonrise over the French Alps and Lake Geneva

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Evian-les-Bains, from whence comes expensive water.

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Alpenhorn at Chalet Suisse

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With the flag tosser and alpenhorn in the background.

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Flag tossing and alpenhorn

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Fondue!

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This fellow entertained us at Chalet Suisse--so fun!

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A lady offered to push him off. ;-)

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There *may* have been some chicken dancing at Chalet Suisse. What happens in Switzerland stays in Switzerland.

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View of Lausanne from Chalet Suisse, with Evian-les-Bain across the lake.

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Flags flown in honor of the World Cup soccer tournament.

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Medieval village of Gruyere.

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View from Gruyere Castle

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View from Gruyere Castle

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The crane--official symbol of Gruyere--found everywhere in the region.

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Stained glass from Gruyere Castle with the crane in the center.

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View from Gruyere Castle

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View from Gruyere Castle

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Dining Hall, Gruyere Castle

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Dining Hall, Gruyere Castle

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Cobblestone from the courtyard of Gruyere Castle--notice the crane on the wrought iron in the upper right-hand corner.

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View from Gruyere Castle

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View from Gruyere Castle

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View from Gruyere Castle

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Medieval village of Gruyere

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Funicular to the top of Mt. Pelerin

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Funicular to the top of Mt. Pelerin

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View from funicular

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Roses--from the funicular

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View from the funicular

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The view out the window of Tom Bluhm's art studio. Amazing, isn't it?

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Here we are with Tom Bluhm. Sorry for the angle--the camera was sitting on a ledge.

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From the top of Mt. Pelerin

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Tom Bluhm's gallery

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This picture is especially for my sister and my grandpa--Swiss Chicken Legs!!

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Driving up the narrow back roads on Mt. Pelerin

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For Baba--A brown Swiss cow!!!

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A little perspective on the size of the bull.

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Sunset from Mt. Pelerin

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Lake Geneva

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School founded by John Calvin

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James' favorite restaurant in Geneva

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Carving on a wall in St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva.

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Carving on a wall in St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva

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St. Peter's Cathedra, Geneva

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Cannon taken from Geneva by Napoleon--later returned to the city by Austria.

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Reformation Wall, Geneva

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John Calvin statue, Reformation Wall, Geneva

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Reformation Wall, Geneva--John Calvin, second from left and John Knox, at right.

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Jet d'eau, Geneva

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We ate pizza here in Geneva--excellent!

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I took a fancy to this statue which I spied from the bus window.

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At the top of Jungfrau--taken from the Sphinx observation terrace.

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Top of Jungfrau

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The dome at the top of the peak is the Sphinx observation terrace.

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This picture shows the entry to the tunnel system--just above the sled dog on the right-hand side of the picture.

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Entry to the tunnel system--Jungfrau

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Where the rock ends and the glacier begins.

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Where the rock ends and the glacier begins

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Going down into the glacier--The Ice Palace on Jungfrau

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Inside the glacier--The Ice Palace at Jungfrau

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In front of the glacier--Jungfrau

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The glacier on Jungfrau

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Restaurants and gift shops on Jungfrau

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We took this picture out the window as we ate lunch on Jungfrau--the two black specks in center-right are people.

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Train station on Jungfrau--the highest station in Europe.

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The valley through which our trains climbed to reach Jungfrau.

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Beginning our hike down the mountain--we were trying to reach the village barely visible in the valley below.

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The start of our hike from Kleine Scheidegg to Brandegg--three hours down the mountainside.

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A view of the thunderstorm that passed over us--our goal is more clearly visible but still far in the distance.

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Avalanche!

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From the train--a view of the area through which we hiked

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Organ in the church where my great-grandmother and great-grandfather were married. Oberdiessbach, Canton Bern.

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At the front of the church in Oberdiessbach.

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The front door of the church in Oberdiessbach.

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Church in Oberdiessbach where my great-grandparents were married.

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School in Bleiken bei Oberdiessbach which my great-grandmother attended.

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The old farmhouse where my great-grandmother lived as a girl. Bleiken bei Oberdiessbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland.

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The driveway to my great-grandmother's childhood home (her home is up the hill).

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The farm where my great-grandmother lived as a girl.

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The farm where my great-grandmother lived as a girl.

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The road down which my great-grandmother walked to school every day.

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View from an overlook near my great-grandmother's childhood home.

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With Lotti Salzmann, my grandfather's cousin, and her husband Hans. Near my great-grandmother's childhood home.

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Lake Thun, near my great-grandmother's birthplace.