Classes over, finals next week, students leave Thursday, and for the first time, the calendars inside and outside the hotel are in sync: It's Christmas.
Chocolate snowmen and reindeer. The big round ones are filled with assorted chocolates, which we bought for Jack and Michael.
Microwaveable chocolate fondue buckets - has Trader Joe's written all over it.
Liqueor-filled, this didn't have Trader Joe's written all over it.
Trees are fitted into logbases.
Pepperdine students organized a Christmas party and Michael joined the white elephant gift exchange. Here he is fully absorbed in the ritual: who's gonna pick his gag gift?
Christmas markets are now daily events all over Europe; Montreux having the most impressive one in French-speaking Switzerland (BTW, I now realize how odd it is to have a French-speaking Switzerland - a local Swiss prof called it, "an Indian reservation"). Speaking of which, a fully costumed Native American "band" - complete with a salmon-smoking hut - hit this year's Marche de Noel.
Along with reindeer and
a scary ferris wheel, which featured OPEN "cages" that would rotate and swing - you know this is a land with petty payouts for lawsuits.
Jack and I went to the Vevey outdoor market and eyed the beautiful advent wreaths. Vendors were selling holly, long-needled pine, cedar (silver patterned underneath the green top), miniature fruit, etc for making homemade decor.
Alpine hornplayers were nearby.
Finally, winter brought colder temps, but some spectacular sunsets, too.
Chocolate snowmen and reindeer. The big round ones are filled with assorted chocolates, which we bought for Jack and Michael.
Microwaveable chocolate fondue buckets - has Trader Joe's written all over it.
Liqueor-filled, this didn't have Trader Joe's written all over it.
Trees are fitted into logbases.
Pepperdine students organized a Christmas party and Michael joined the white elephant gift exchange. Here he is fully absorbed in the ritual: who's gonna pick his gag gift?
Christmas markets are now daily events all over Europe; Montreux having the most impressive one in French-speaking Switzerland (BTW, I now realize how odd it is to have a French-speaking Switzerland - a local Swiss prof called it, "an Indian reservation"). Speaking of which, a fully costumed Native American "band" - complete with a salmon-smoking hut - hit this year's Marche de Noel.
Along with reindeer and
a scary ferris wheel, which featured OPEN "cages" that would rotate and swing - you know this is a land with petty payouts for lawsuits.
Jack and I went to the Vevey outdoor market and eyed the beautiful advent wreaths. Vendors were selling holly, long-needled pine, cedar (silver patterned underneath the green top), miniature fruit, etc for making homemade decor.
Alpine hornplayers were nearby.
Finally, winter brought colder temps, but some spectacular sunsets, too.
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