Sorry about the lack of posts. Writing them turns out to take a lot of time!

A brief re-cap of the past few weeks:

Nico went to Bristol, UK for a week to visit the main office. Corrin and I had lots of good quality time while she was gone. We did boat rides, visited the natural history museum, and of course, went to the park every day. We had a wonderful nanny during the day who is now Corrin's new best friend.

My parents visited for a week. They did fun things with Corrin, and we spent the weekend they were here for in Luzern, which is a pretty cool, if touristy, little town. We spent saturday in Luzern traversing Mount Pilatus. We took a boat to the far side of it (Alpnachstad) and rode the steepest cog railway in the world up to the top. The railway takes about 30 minutes to get the top, and the steepest grades are 48%. Parts of the railway are literally cut into the side of sheer cliffs. We went back down the other side of the mountain via cable car, which was also pretty cool. On Sunday, my parents took Corrin back to Zurich via train, and Nico and I rode our bikes back to Zurich, through hill and dale (literally). The ride was quite beautiful, about 40 miles, and we got back mere minutes ahead of an angry looking thunderstorm.

Last weekend we went to Lugano (yes, we are visiting only cities that start with L on this trip). Lugano has two funiculars that start from town - one going up Mount Bre, and the other going up Mount San Salvatore. We rode both of them. (Corrin likes trains).

Friday is my last day of work. On Saturday, I'm off to ride through the Alps with a fellow from work. The following Thursday, we all leave for Greece. We've decided to spend our last 5 days just lounging around Zurich, conserving energy for Greece.