Holy Cow!

Last Saturday the cities from Geneva to Vevey hosted "Night at the Museum" - a 24 hr period of unlimited entrance to all museums for 10 chf, INCLUDING ALL PUBLIC TRANSPORT!

Kids are free anyway, so with just two of the below, we were in!

A green theme, Carolyn and I wore these around our necks & were encouraged to plant them - seeds inside the biodegradable ticket.

Lausanne's Natural History Museum - we'd been meaning to go here for years - houses geology, archaelogy, zoology, & a library. There was panning for gold...

Some old

and new friends.

Marie & Jack are somewhat an item.

I asked Michael to pose over the excavated ancestors of Vaud canton:

and the library featured some Pierre Viret manuscripts.

"On the Origin, the Difference, and the Place of Ancient and Modern Idols; True and False Images and Objects and the One True Mediator" (1551).

We could sure use him now, as Jeff Bezos launched Kindle Fire, moving the e-reader from book to video gaming.

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Many local restaurants offered promotions to the LA NUIT DES MUSÉES, including Holy Cow,

a new hamburger joint in town:

the Che Guevara reference was cute.

Tasty, fresh fries.

Only Jack did not finish his basket.

The ease of travel, the compactness of the city, really makes Lausanne quite a spectacular urban experience, and I hate it when locked indoors all day on course work. We're having a very unusual fall so far, as well. Nothing about the weather feels autumnal except

The constant turning of seasonal produce, like the quince fruit

and a rich basket of chantrelles!