Our Trip to France Day 8

Well, today is our last day in Les Gets and it gets off to a lazy start. I sleep in until about 9AM and Amanda sleeps in until 10AM and we partake of some of the customary pan de chocolat and some sausage from last night's feast and some tap water as we have drunk all of the bottled water we bought yesterday. We lounge around and really do nothing the entire morning.

We start to get packed and ready to leave about 1PM and before Tori heads off to ski school we take our Goddaughter Lillia out in the snow on her sledge. In the States, it is called a sled. We take her around the corner from our chalet down the snow covered road and pull her up and down the road. Meanwhile, Nick is frolicking in the snow that happens to sink down to his privates, and eventually ends up stuck in the snow and we have to pull him out. We got some great pics and will be putting them up shortly.

As they take Tori to ski school, Amanda, Megan and I go to the Musee de Musique Mechinique. This was a great idea, yet the musee itself really kinda sucked. It had two parts. The first part we went to had automaton boxes that were used to advertise perfume in the store windows. They were little boxes that had moving people in that were depicting an event of everyday life like bathing, getting dressed, that had to do with putting on perfume and men shaving. BORING, to say the least. And it SMELLED!!!It was a cool idea, but some of them really did not work that well. Next was the musique mechanique, or music box. It started with the really big music boxes that were really little pipe organs that played when you turned a handle and the little cylinder with the pegs on it rotated and it played. We then moved to ones that had a metal disc instead of a wooden cylinder. These sounded like music boxes. We then moved to a miniature version with a metal cylinder that were places in different tings like chairs, desks and pictures. We gathered this ourselves as the lady giving the tour ONLY spoke French even though 3/5 of the tour spoke only English. Anyway, we then moved to the player piano and other music boxes that used paper to tell the thing what to play. We left after that to get back to the chalet in order to leave

We packed up the car and said our goodbyes and headed toward Geneva. It was a lot easier to gat back than it was to get from Geneva to Les Gets. The only complaint about Swiss Roads are that if you are going straight down the road, some of the signs make it look like you have to turn. VERY CONFUSING. We made it to the hotel and then we took the car back after filling it with 19 CHF worth of petrol. Then the adventure began of getting back to the hotel. We found the exit, but there really was no way to walk back, so we had to take a taxi for about a half mile for 15 CHF. Luckily the cabby stopped near us to look something up and we grabbed the cab. We got bak to the hotel and partook of the dinner buffet that had some delightful desserts at the end. We had some buche de noel, that really were not about noel, some great cookies and some fabulous raspberry mousse. The entries were good also. We had flavored rice, spaghetti with seafood, fillet of John Dorry (a type of fish), tortellini in pesto, carved roast, boiled shrimp, air dried meat, and other goodies.

We got up to the room and checked in for our flight and got ready for bed as we had to get up at 4:30 to be sure to catch the 5:30 shuttle from the hotel to the airport.

Until next time......