Leah and Rusty's Baptisms, Labor Day Weekend

Rusty was born August 13 and Leah was born August 21.  They both live in Colorado.  They were baptized the same day, September 1, 2012.  Each of their father's baptized and confirmed them.  It was a lovely service.  I am so lucky to have children who are teaching their children about the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

 The Lees

 Trent, Carin, Leah, and Grandma

All the cousins except Marisa and Natalie were able to be there.  It was nice having Parker and Jessie come for the baptisms.

 

 

 

Labor Day 

 

We went on a hike in the Flat Iron Mountains.

 Waiting in the shade for the slow ones.

 Three cute little girls.  There were amazing hikers.

 We were looking for a stream to throw rocks in, however we just found a puddle. 

 Lunch was at Chautauqua Park.  Kickball was the game of the day.

 

 

 

What a great way to spend Labor Day weekend.  I just love my family.

 

Milan and one last visit

Friday morning we were up early to catch the 6:00 train to Milan.  It was early enough that we didn't think taxis would be working. So we walked the half mile to the station.  Thank goodness it was downhill and the suitcase had wheels.  We got on and off many modes of transportation this day.

 

 

Travel from Zermatt to Milan to London to Greenwich

Walk to train station 5:45 am.

Train departs 6:12

Arrive at Brig

Got on an Italian train

Got off-track was undergoing maintenance

Took a bus to another train station

Got on another train

Past Lake Como-beautiful big lake

Arrived in Milan 11:35

Stored luggage

Walked to Milan Duomo (Not impressed with this part of Milan)

Subway back to train

Train to airport

Shuttle bus from train to airport

Plane to London

Overground train to London Victoria Station

Wrong tube stop

Another tube to get to North Greenwich Station

No taxis around

Took bus to Van Brough Hill

Walked up the hill to Woodland Heights, arrived ???

Milan train station was very attractive.

Street and shopping next to the Cathedral.

People feed the birds so the birds are all over the place at the Duomo.  

Hum?? I don't think that is Angel Moroni up there.  This cathedral was probably the best one I saw on this trip.  It reminds me of Notre Dame in Paris, but it doesn't compare to the beauty of a LDS Temple.  

 

 

Saturday morning was the last time on this trip we had to spend with Tim, Tanya, Marisa, and Natalie.  They were watching two extra kids.  We went to downtown Greenwich.

The kids were told they would get a treat at the candy store.  Too bad, it was still closed.  We went back a little later and it was open. 

Greenwich has a really nice market.

Cutty Sark in the daytime.

What a nice place to say good-bye to this cute little family. 

Zermatt and the Matterhorn

I was so excited when we pulled into Zermatt.  It was overcast, but we saw most of the Matterhorn. 

 

Our cute little place was called the Primavera.  The room actually had two beds.  However, the elevator only had room for one person and one suitcase.  

The river went right through town.

Downtown Zermatt

Thursday morning we got up early to take another cogwheel train to get a closer look at the Matterhorn and glaciers.  We went on one of the first trains up for the day, around 8:00 am.

I took this picture through the window.  I'm glad I did because by the time we got to the top, clouds were moving in.  

Glaciers are frozen rivers.

The clouds moved in quickly.  Eventually they completely covered the glaciers and Matterhorn.  

We waited at the top for I think three hours.  It didn't look like it was going to lift.  We headed down on the train.  At one stop we decided to get off and hike the rest of the way.  

Once at the bottom it looked like the fog was going to lift so we started another hike.  This cloud did not want to go away.  

The cloud was still clinging to the Matterhorn.

Finally, around 5:00 in the afternoon we got to see the whole mountain.  Isn't it amazing?