More Exploring




It was bitterly cold this weekend.  As if summer had decided to stay in Cincinnati and not come with us.  Plus it's been raining and overall super dreary. But we decided to do a bit more exploring this weekend nonetheless.  When we came back from Yvoire last Sunday our next door neighbor (who also owns the house we are living in) recommended that we go to Annecy, he said it was even more beautiful than Yvoire which was a little hard to believe.  But I guess he was right.  This place reminded me so much of Venice, but it might be even prettier than Venice because it's not so crowded. Although who knows had the weather been a little better.  We walked around, had wonderful food, then did the pedal boats around the lake, followed by a little train ride which let us discover everything they had there.  We discovered they have a little beach so we'll definitely be bringing our friend Mara when she comes to visit.  Hopefully the weather is better!  And some of the pedal boats also have little slides so you take them out in the middle of the lake and then you slide of the boat and swim around in the lake. Again, I can't imagine how you do any of this stuff given how cold it was this weekend, but hopefully when Mara's in town it'll be a whole different story.  After the train ride it started raining so we went home for more World Cup action. 

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