Happy Weather

There is a beautiful river near our home in Oberburg called the Emme River. We had a chance to go to it and stick our feet in the water. I had the opportunity to see Brett's sweet rock skipping skills. He is actually pretty good, I think it's what contributes to his skills in the Easter egg toss success. He said that he grew up as an island boy... what do you expect? Well, I know for sure one of them skipped 6 times. I tried and got 2 skips max. It was fun though. The water wasn't to cold but was very clear. The rocks were big river rocks throughout. It was hard to walk anywhere.
The weather has been great. It was pretty hot at the beginning of the week then cold at the end, and starting the weekend it was perfect. Sunny skies with a nice clean cool breeze. We are loving this kind of summer weather.
Saturday we were asked to walk Markus's huge dog. Not quite sure what type it is but it's big, and very smelly. He is pretty old and his name is Connan. Brett was weary of letting him off the leash because that's how people walk their dogs around here. But we did and had a pretty nice walk with him. We thought he would run away from us and we wouldn't be able to catch up to him, but because he is so old we were actually waiting on him most of the time.

Ruth took us to a cheese factory. Our very first cheese factory in Switzerland, and ever. It was Emmentaler cheese. It didn't smell as bad as you think it would but it definitely smelt funky. It was cool seeing how cheese is made. I never really knew. They store so much for the aging process. I have never seen so much cheese. I just wanted to eat some. It was fun to see some authentic cheese making. The cheese was about two feet in diameter and 6 inches thick when they store it. That's a lot of cheese. Who cut the cheese?! We're having a lot of fun right now!