Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Flims/Laax
Today I went snowboarding at a mountain called Flims/Laax. The weather was fantastic and there was TONS of powder (almost too much). One of my former colleagues from New York, who happens to be Swiss, is here with his wife to visit family. They invited me to go skiing with them, which was awesome, since Matt's at work anyway. I played hooky from German lessons to meet up with them and I had a lot of fun. My colleague is a ridiculously good skier- I guess that's how they breed them around here (he grew up 10 minutes from these mountains). I may have pushed it a little too hard trying to keep up (given my condition), but I had a blast!
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| Amazing view from the top of the mountain! |
Thursday, January 19, 2012
First Swiss Doctor's Appointment
Today was my first obstetrician appointment here in Zürich. Luckily Matt's colleague, who is also pregnant, was able to recommend a great, english speaking doctor to me- and he was fantastic! Everyone at the office was SO nice, which is quite unlike my experience at my Hoboken doctor. Even though my doctor in Hoboken was super nice, things are so rushed there. At this office I felt like the doctor really had time. He did the ultrasound himself and he was much more explanatory than the tech who did my first ultrasound in Hoboken. All in all, I was very pleased with the experience. Unfortunately (because of the afore mentioned insurance rules here) he won't be able to deliver the baby (unless we pay some astronomical sum of money), but at least he will be there to guide me through the pre-natal process.
We still don't know if it's a boy or girl (I am only in my 15th week) but here are some pictures. It looks much more human than before!
We still don't know if it's a boy or girl (I am only in my 15th week) but here are some pictures. It looks much more human than before!
Monday, January 2, 2012
Skiing at Flumserberg
Today we went skiing for the first time in Switzerland. Our guests from the home (Vlady and Derek) wanted to go- and so did we- so we decided to try one of the mountains closest to Zürich, Flumserberg. It took us a little over an hour to get to the mountain and had a great variety of trails. The Swiss consider it to be a dinky mountain, but it seemed pretty decent sized to me (certainly at least comparable to most NH/VT mountains). The weather was fantastic and the conditions were amazing (in the morning at least)... the views were almost as good as the skiing! Matt hadn't been on skis since middle school and he did a really great job.
We had a slight hitch in the afternoon when we stopped for lunch at the top of the mountain. When we left the restaurant, it was snowing HARD- like white-out hard. We ended up in a situation where 1) 3 out of 4 of us had no goggles 2) there was only one really difficult slope down 3) we couldn't see a foot in front of us and 4) Derek had only been skiing maybe 8 times in his life. As embarrassing as it is to admit it, we had to take the lift back down. The lift operators were laughing at us hysterically (I am sure saying 'Stupid Americans')- ahh well, what are you going to do? At least we all came out with no broken limbs...
We had a slight hitch in the afternoon when we stopped for lunch at the top of the mountain. When we left the restaurant, it was snowing HARD- like white-out hard. We ended up in a situation where 1) 3 out of 4 of us had no goggles 2) there was only one really difficult slope down 3) we couldn't see a foot in front of us and 4) Derek had only been skiing maybe 8 times in his life. As embarrassing as it is to admit it, we had to take the lift back down. The lift operators were laughing at us hysterically (I am sure saying 'Stupid Americans')- ahh well, what are you going to do? At least we all came out with no broken limbs...
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Year, New News!
It's a new year with new news. We are adding a new little Swiss Miss or Swiss Mister (as my sister likes to call it) to our family! Baby is expected +/- 10 days of July 18th! It will be an adventure giving birth in this country, I am already beginning to see the intricacies of their insurance system and their MANY rules. From what I understand, though, the quality of medical care here is quite good, so I think everything will work out fine.
We don't have a lot of info yet, but here are some initial pictures from the ultrasound at 8 weeks, 6 days:
We don't have a lot of info yet, but here are some initial pictures from the ultrasound at 8 weeks, 6 days:
Happy New Year!!
We had an awesome first new year in Zurich. We were lucky enough have some friends visiting from the US, so early in the day we toured around town with them.
Then later on we had a little get-together with our old friends and our new friends here in Zurich. A bit before midnight we headed down to the lake (which is conveniently just a few blocks from our apartment) to see the fireworks display, which was really fantastic.
The Swiss seem to be quite reserved- we were definitely the loud Americans when the clock struck midnight.
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| Every year during the holidays the city decorates Bahnhofstrasse (the main street in Zürich), so we made sure to stay out past dusk |
Then later on we had a little get-together with our old friends and our new friends here in Zurich. A bit before midnight we headed down to the lake (which is conveniently just a few blocks from our apartment) to see the fireworks display, which was really fantastic.
The Swiss seem to be quite reserved- we were definitely the loud Americans when the clock struck midnight.
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| Getting the champagne ready... |
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| Matt & Derek toasting to midnight, college style. |
Location:Feldeggstrasse,Zurich,Switzerland
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