Around Morges

Today was an expedition to the town of Morges on Lake Geneva just 5 minutes from Ahriel, Nicole, and Teo's home in Monnaz.  It was noted that field trips like this are now more of a challenge.  We ended up in two cars - Paula, Nicole, Teo and me in one and Ahriel and Malibu and the stroller in the other.  All went well.

When we arrived in Morges we discovered that the tulips were in full flower.  Amazing colors everywhere!   With the temperature in the 70s and the sun shining, lots of people from the town were also strolling around the gardens next to the lake.  Here are a few photos:

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Here are Paula, Malibu, Nicole, Teo, and Ahriel:

After wandering through the flowers and strolling along Lake Geneva we stopped at a tent selling sausages and hot dogs with picnic tables overlooking the lake and mountains on the far (French) side.  Perfect!

The "hotdogs" were pretty unique.   Instead of a hotdog and a bun they had a large sausage and a baguette (a loaf of french bread) cut into several large sections.  The piece of the baguette was then stabbed onto a spike and the sausage pushed inside - it would be sticking out of one end if the baguette piece was an end piece and you could see the sausage on both ends of the baguette for the middle slices (I hope that makes sense...).  Here's a photo of the mechanism that they used to stab the baguette (you can see that an end chunk of a baguette has been stabbed on the spike on the right and hot dogs are waiting in the center heated container)...

 Malibu also had fun chasing sticks and rocks in Lake Geneva - here Ahriel the Daredevil climbs down the rocks to find a good fetching stick for Malibu.

We stopped to buy some bread at a bakery.  This being Sunday almost all of the shops in town were closed.  Cafes and restaurants were mostly open and a few small bakeries or grocery stores.   But the big stores - department stores, large grocery stores, hardware stores, garden stores, etc. are all closed on Sundays.  Very different from in the United States.

On our way back to the car we passed yesterday's market street.  Today it was deserted: