Since we decided not to go home to Texas for the holidays this year, we needed to find somewhere to go for our Christmas vacation. After much debating, we decided to go to Zermatt, Switzerland with our friends from December 18-22. Zermatt is a lovely ski town located in the Swiss Alps. Athough neither Aaron or I ski, we though it would be a relaxing vacation filled with lots of snowball fights and playing in the snow. Sounds perfect, huh?
We picked out a place to stay a few weeks ago and pretty much winged the entire trip. It became very obvious on our drive there when we put the address into our GPS and nothing came up. Turns out Zermatt is a walking town and driving is not open to the public. Only battery powered cars are allowed to prevent air pollution. {I'm smiling and silently laughing as I write about this because that was just a little important piece of information that would have been good to know. Had I done my research, I would have easily known that. Whoopsies!} Since we couldn't drive in Zermatt, we had to park our car in Tasch- 3 miles away, take a shuttle to Zermatt, and then take an electric car to our hotel. With all our bags, it was a pain having to switch cars so many times! I should also mention that on top of that, the driver taking us to our hotel misunderstood us and took us to the wrong hotel at first.
Waterfall on one of our stops.
It's snowy in the mountains.
On the shuttle to Zermatt.
We finally made it to our home for the next 5 days!
I still have no clue how we fit in that tiny electric car with all of our stuff.
Our 2 bedroom apartment with living room, dining room, and kitchen was perfect for for our two families. Plus we had a balcony with a fabulous view of the Matterhorn {one of the highest mountains in Europe}.
It was foggy our first day, so we couldn't see the tip of the Matterhorn.
After unpacking all of our stuff and relaxing for a bit, we took the boys out to play in the snow. Connor quickly learned how to make snowballs!
He was all about throwing snowballs!
The boys sliding down the hill.
Once the boys got their energy out, we put forced Connor into the stroller and went for a walk around the small town. We went into a couple shops and made a stop at the visitor center for information about things to do and to find out the locations of the ski lifts.
Connor fell asleep right before we found a restaurant to eat dinner at. It worked out perfectly because we were able to have a beer and eat our dinner without having to worry about him. We woke him up once we were finished so he could pick on our food, but he wasn't too happy after that.
We walked back to our hotel after dinner and started our nightly Star Wars marathon that would last the entire trip. :)
We passed by this really neat pop up wine bar made out of ice.
The fancy Grand Hotel Zermatterhof.
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