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Wooohooo! We are in Switzerland in the town of Lucerne and our hotel actually has internet! We went through some country areas and wifi isn’t always on their list of priorities. I don’t blame them. I've been writing anyways that way I could just click and upload everything once I got the chance. So there should be some posts below if this works right.

I am running a day behind at this point but I should be able to get today and tomorrow up before we leave Lucerne. Then we will be in Austria and I'm not sure what their internet situation is - I just know I'm going whitewater rafting and bobsledding in the same day. I just want them to have hospitals. Hospitals are good.

If the pics are loading slow or making the page move slow, let me know and i'll shrink them up. Also, if at the bottom of a post it says "READ MORE" then click it and more stuff will show up below it. Some of the days are split because I kept coming back and writing more when I had free time. Enjoy!

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  1. DebJuly 11, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    Boy have you been busy. Pics look wonderful. Kind of jealous. So glad you're doing this. Look forward to your next commentary. You should have been a writer or a Glen Beck type person.. Always told you you could talk a bird out of a tree.

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  2. MariaJuly 12, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    This is fantastic! You are missed here in NY, but you are keeping us entertained with this blog post (brilliant idea to do this). Seems to be a great time so far. Looking forwrd to the next location. Be careful bobsledding....I just watched that Jamaican bobsledding movie (cool running?) and it seems that even on Jamaican soil it's a pretty intense sport...

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  3. AdamJH31July 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    I wonder why Buick would name a car after a town in Switzerland?

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  4. PatrickJuly 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Wait till you see it...

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  5. AdamJH31July 12, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    how was rafting/bobsledding? any class 5?

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  6. PatrickJuly 12, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    That's tomorrow when we get to Austria. We are leaving here in the morning and going straight to the rafting. They are class 3. And we need to be fully suited because it's freezing cold. Should be awesome!

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  7. PatrickJuly 12, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    PS. Thanks Mom! Love you!

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