Day 119

A day of traveling to France! We left Mark’s house around 8am, for the 8 hour drive to near Geneva, Switzerland. The day of traveling started out great! The land of hills rolling by, and the mountains with snow on top. Green fields and green trees, with animals grazing in the fields.

When we were about 2 hours from the border of France we drove into snow! It was snowing hard and the roads were getting worse as we went. We then came to a tunnel, a very expensive tunnel I might add, and we were glad to be going through a tunnel. This tunnel cut underneath huge mountains, letting us skip a lot of the snow. In tunnels, Dad’s GPS went blank. When we exited the tunnel, we drove through some heavy snow for awhile in an area that appeared to lead through some kind of station between Italy and France. The traffic patterns were very confusing, particularly in the driving snow but soon we were going downhill again and at lower elevations the snow disappeared.

As we drew nearer to our destination, a small town just outside of Geneva, while the snow had stopped, the sky was still gray. Traveling on a gray day is the best. You don’t get car sick nearly as much because the sun is not glaring on you. When we arrived at our next destination, a home above a bakery, we parked and the weather outside had gotten really cold. It was windy and freezing. Dad walked into the bakery and asked for the key. When he got the key he went to find the house. The house was small, with a tiny kitchen a regular living room/dinning room. There was a small with fireplace in the living room that I kept going. Upstairs there were 3 bedrooms, and bookshelves everywhere.

After settling down we then went to go find dinner. After eating dinner we went back to the house and slept.

PS: This was Tuesday's post.