Gruyeres - Wkd Sept. 3

During the month of August, I spent all of my time in the US other than one week when I returned to Switzerland.  The first two weeks were spent with a day in Detroit followed by Ludington for a week and a half for Kyle's bachelor party and with Melissa's family, and then Kyle's wedding in South Bend followed by a few days of work in Peoria before returning to Peoria.  This was quite an eventful time period, but always fun coming home.

After in Geneva for less that a week, I then flew to Detroit area to run the CRIM, make a celebrity appearance on my old soccer team, and go to Disney world for a work training.

I returned to Geneva on Sept. 2nd and had visitors the next day as the McLaufers and Interliggis were beginning a two week European vacation.  I ran my last 20 mile training run for marathon training and then I met them at the airport as my bag as delayed from the prior day and helped them reach their AirBnB.  After leaving them for some time to relax, we went to Yvoire for filet du perch on Lac Leman.  Very fun first day, but the jet lag was catching up to all of of us well.

The following day, we went to Gruyeres Switzerland, home of Cailler Chocolate and Gruyere cheese.  We did a tour of each; both were fun, but at the end of the chocolate tour there they provided endless tastings of their entire chocolate line so that tour wins of the two.

Gruyeres is a gorgeous city perched within the mountains; the castle is located on the top of the the mountain along with the entire old town.  In the city, we did a fondue before heading into the castle for some sightseeing and back to Geneva.

The group had a Chamonix visit planned the following day (Monday) so we did one last dinner at Chez Moi (likely the 5th time in a month) and then they continued their Eurotrip on to Zurich!