New Years in Switzerland

We traveled to Geneva, Switzerland for New Years Eve and had a Switzerland favorite for dinner...fondue. They brought out a LARGE plate of raw beef slices, a bowl full of bread, french fries, and two big hot pots. One boiling pot was full of a soup to cook your beef in and the other pot full of STINKY but oh so good swiss cheese to dip the bread and fries in. It was a great New Years meal together. 

Before we left Geneva that New Year's morning, we visited the church of the Reformation. It is the home of where the Protestant Reformation began. John Calvin fled from persecution and took refuge there in Geneva. Here is where John Calvin wrote the tenants of the Christian faith. Dan wanted so bad to go to Geneva just for the reason to visit the museum of John Calvin but it turned out that it was closed on New Years day. It was a bummer. So we took lots of pictures of the church from the outside. 

After visiting the church we traveled to Mont Blanc, Switzerland in the Alps. This was by far the highlight of the trip for me. The Alps were amazing!! The photos I got do not do the place any justice. You cannot capture how beautiful this place was. It felt as though you were in a fairy tale where the view your were seeing was painted and not real. Mont Blanc is the tenth highest mountain in the world. In the valley of these mountains there is a beautiful village full of people, mostly skiers. We spent the whole day there.

We got a chance to go up on top of Mont Blanc by cable car reaching 15,000 feet plus in the air. It was AMAZING! The view was breathtaking and the air was so cold!
I could not feel my fingers or toes here.
This picture is of the village down below.

Here are some skiers holding onto a a roped fence that leads them down to the skiing spot.
The Alps were breathtaking. I am definitely making it a point to go back there one day. I would love to be able to take my whole family with me. What a beautiful place.