July 27, 2011 - Day 1 in Switzerland

We arrived here early this a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Swiss time (2:00 a.m. East Coast). Very tired but happy to be here. We are staying at my cousins home in Rheinfelden, Switzerland known as "the town that has everything". This town was founded in 1130, there are roughly 12,000 people living here. The center of town is very picturesque with a pretty clock tower and midieval archway.There is a very well known spa, in walking distance (Sara and I can't wait to go there).

We had roeschti (prounced rooshtey) - potatoes and onions, along with brotwurst - sausage for lunch which is the big meal of the day. Sara had a side of ketchup to eat the meat with! For dessert, my aunt made Waehe (pronounced Via) which is an open faced pie made with apricots and plums with a pie crust on the bottom and a light egg/bread crumb/cream, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt mixture on top. They served the dessert with more sugar and whipped topping (Sara ate that as well).