The Turkish burrito. One of the cheapest things we can find to eat here in Switzerland. We got some pictures of us having one of our last if not our last, kebap. We decided we are going to open a Turkish kebap shop in Arizona and a Mexican taco shop in Switzerland. We will be rich! Maybe not. But we will miss these little burritos wrap things and the mystery meat that goes in them. Even though they are cheap here, we do miss the wonderful prices of home cooked burritos... free. We are not going to miss the over priced food and everything for that matter.
One thing that I am going to miss dearly are the best ice cream bars I have ever experienced: Magnum! They have several flavors but we get the chocolate covered with almond pieces in it. Mmm! The ice cream is so creamy, the chocolate is so creamy, the almonds are so creamy.. wait not really. The almonds are the perfect crunch to it though. It's bigger and thicker than any other ice cream bar I have had on a stick. I will miss them dearly. If I ever find out they are in America, I will be in Magnum heaven! The wrappers they are in are lined with gold. I always sing, "I have a golden ticket!" when we eat them. Yummy! Brett's face describes all that needs to be said about them.
Something that will not be missed is something that I still find interesting every time I do the laundry. This is one of the wealthiest countries. It is full of millionaires, some of the top amounts of millionaires in the world even! The thing is though that they still do their laundry by hang drying! Yup, no dryers here. I must say it has been a lot better than Africa's hang drying though. There I would get my clothes back dirtier than before they were washed. Here, the problem is that it rains, a lot. So how do you dry clothes when it's raining all the time! I really don't understand why they don't have dryers, they just don't. It's been an interesting process. The first time we did laundry Ruth actually took it for us and did it while we were at work. It was garments. Somehow they came back that evening dried and folded. I was embarrassed and amazed at the same time. She had to be hiding a dryer somewhere or she just hung out our underwear outside for the day. Awesome! It's been fun though, but something that I won't miss very much.
We will miss the yummy cheese though. Yum! I do love the cheese here, specifically Gruyere cheese. Brett has had bread and cheese every day here for lunch. It's the fastest thing to grab on the way out the door. Brett is not going to miss having this every day though. Something else is that we won't miss the stinky cheese smell either. Brett had some nasty moldy old cheese in his back pack the other day and we just found it. He's been complaining for some time about how his back pack stank. Well we found it. Nastiest smell!! And every time we get a new piece of cheese out of the package to cut for lunch or something else, it puts meaning to the phrase "cutting the cheese". It doesn't smell too good when you literally cut cheese here. In a weird way I will miss that cheese smell though.
All together though, there will be many things missed and appreciated from this country when we return home.
On our last Sunday there, Ruth invited a whole bunch of people from the ward that got to know us, over for a good-bye party. It was filled with yummy cakes, appetizers, and fun friends. We made a lot of friends there and learned from a lot of people. One of our favorite friends were the missionaries: Elder Wilde and Elder Layton. They were fun as we went with them to Sister Somer's house and hung out with them at FHE and church. We hope they continue to be such great characters and are grateful for their service. It was fun hanging out with kind of our own age! They came to our good-bye party and it was weird knowing that we probably will never see them or some of the others again. It was nice to feel loved and supported by so many though. We miss every one already!
This was August 3rd I believe, Switzerland's Independence day and Ruth's Birthday. We hiked up Gantrisch that day. It was a beautiful hike, unfortunately there were clouds covering the whole mountain! It was a cool feeling though as we sliced through the clouds to the top of the mountain. On the other side, we caught a glimpse of the mountain range as the clouds shortly encompassed our view shortly after. 
Something that will not be missed is something that I still find interesting every time I do the laundry. This is one of the wealthiest countries. It is full of millionaires, some of the top amounts of millionaires in the world even! The thing is though that they still do their laundry by hang drying! Yup, no dryers here. I must say it has been a lot better than Africa's hang drying though. There I would get my clothes back dirtier than before they were washed. Here, the problem is that it rains, a lot. So how do you dry clothes when it's raining all the time! I really don't understand why they don't have dryers, they just don't. It's been an interesting process. The first time we did laundry Ruth actually took it for us and did it while we were at work. It was garments. Somehow they came back that evening dried and folded. I was embarrassed and amazed at the same time. She had to be hiding a dryer somewhere or she just hung out our underwear outside for the day. Awesome! It's been fun though, but something that I won't miss very much.
We will miss the yummy cheese though. Yum! I do love the cheese here, specifically Gruyere cheese. Brett has had bread and cheese every day here for lunch. It's the fastest thing to grab on the way out the door. Brett is not going to miss having this every day though. Something else is that we won't miss the stinky cheese smell either. Brett had some nasty moldy old cheese in his back pack the other day and we just found it. He's been complaining for some time about how his back pack stank. Well we found it. Nastiest smell!! And every time we get a new piece of cheese out of the package to cut for lunch or something else, it puts meaning to the phrase "cutting the cheese". It doesn't smell too good when you literally cut cheese here. In a weird way I will miss that cheese smell though.
We went to a pizza place this weekend! It was so fun! We had our first night at a restaurant! While we were waiting for the food to come out we researched about the tip that we needed to give. We found out that too much is an insult here as well. They already include your tip in the bill here and extra tips aren't really as common as America. Good thing we had my phone to check that out before we paid anyone a nice tip. Funny how things can have different meanings in different cultures. We had two pizzas, they were rather small. A Hawaiian pizza and a regular pepperoni. It was yummy. We had a great time eating outside enjoying our really fancy cups with water in them. It was fancy water too though came from a glass bottle. Tasted pretty good too! It was so fun having a date night alone with my love! As much as we loved this place, we miss Little Caesar's $5 pizza I think a little more.
