Saturday, June 7, 2008

Bern/Geneva


[Cathy, reporting from Switzerland] 

OMG!!!  Cannot believe I'm actually here!  It is so cool and of course everything is beautiful! :) 

Like Brian was saying about the 'Bailey's'..that was the coolest gift so we enjoyed that on Thursday and checked out Bern.  On Friday, we headed off to Geneva so that we could check into our hotel and see the city sights... the city was all prepared for the Euro so that was awesome!!  The fountain where they have the fussball is sooo cool!!  The Swiss clock in the shape of the fussball is also cool!!  Of course everything is cool!!!  :)  Here are some pictures from Friday.

Needless to say, Geneva is a blast!  Our hotel was 'verry nice' as Borat would say.. We went into Old Town and saw the Cathedral St. Pierre on Saturday then went to pick up our tickets for the match.  The city was getting geared up for the Euro and we had tickets to (Portugal/Turkey) 
OMG!!!  It was the best game ever since Portugal scored 2 and Turkey nil!  We were seated in the Portuguese area so that worked out.  They are soo crazy! :)  I picked up some Portuguese gear before so we participated in the chants and even took a few photos w/ some compadres..
Before the game, we were at the 'Fan Zone' in Geneva which was crazy but awesome!!!

Switzerland gave it a solid shot but Czech Republic scored 1 so that was a bit disheartening but that's just one game so we'll keep a close watch on La Suisse.  

After the game, we came back to meet Pam & Brian at the bar across the street from the hotel, 'Lord Jim's Bar'  

Sunday we just woke up and headed back out to Bern.  Au revoir Geneva! :(  It was fun!! :)

 

1 comment:

Lori S. said...

I could not stop laughing at the pix from Geneva - especially the ones in front to the "clock". You should have seen the Caldeira girls handling of this random guy who would just not move out of the way so Brian could take a picture! It was too funny. Cathy and Pam kept yelling at him "Excuse me, Excuse me, please move! Thank you!" OMG, the guy did not know what to do with himself. He was obviously a Turkish fan, which didn't make me feel bad about how the Caldeira girls treated him. Portugale! Portugale! (sorry Brian I need to include the Portugal name whenever and as often as I can within this blog.)
Lori