It's fun to play "Bear Hunt" in Bern because you can get a point pretty much every minute of the day. Seriously, there are bears everywhere....on flags, in stores, on the buildings, etc. According to Aaron's GPS (yes, he now has a GPS for traveling needs) we walked a total of 9 miles today! So you can imagine how many bears we saw...
The armored bear statue was over 500 years old. They were everywhere. On the same street was Einstein's house where he came up with the theory of relativity. It was boring, sad to say, but at least we can say we were there.
We also waited to see the old clock. It's called the Zytglogge and don't even ask me how to pronounce that because it's the German part of Switzerland. It had a little mechanical show with bears and a rooster. It was a little anti climatic except for the fact that it was made in the 1400's and still worked. The rooster crowed, the bears went in a merry go round circle, and the man sitting turned his hourglass upside down.
We also got to see the famous bears in their bear pits. They were pretty lively, wrestling in the water. They reminded us of Trixie playing with her doggie friends.
We then went to Munster St Vinzenz, the church in town and climbed to the top of the tower which is quite a climb. It's the tallest church in all of Switzerland actually. The churches here are very underused in our opinions because we were allowed to pretty much go anywhere we wanted.
We ate a CRAZY expensive lunch (we're talking $150 after the exchange rate) which included a sea bass for Aaron and the wienerschnitzel for me. Delicious and HUGE portions. Not like we needed so much food, but we don't plan on eating THAT crazy for the entire trip.
Today we took a train ride up to Rochers de Naye, a really tall mountain. Wow, that sounds really vague. Soren would tell you that it's the landing spot for Santa Claus in the winter. You have to take a 50 minute train ride to get there.
The view was amazing. Will was trying to point out where he lived but it was a little hard to tell where exactly he was pointing. We ate in a panoramic restaurant and got to stare at this view for a good hour. Nice right? Also, we were able to view Mont Blanc, though to be honest, I'm not sure just WHICH mountain top it was. I am guessing it was one of the 5 that had snow on them. Good guess? Not sure.
It was a good workout for us, seeing as we've been eating nothing but pastries, cheese, and meat here. But Switzerland has some damn good food! 
We went out for dinner tonight at a "Restaurant Terrasse". Clever, no? The waiter informed us that it was the best terrace in all of Europe, according to some magazine. It WAS pretty amazing! Switzerland has some amazing views, I will give it that. I think Will and Nicole enjoyed their night out away from the kids. It was a great trip!
Today we went to Lausanne to see the Notre Dame of Switzerland. It was a basic church although there was much less stained glass and not so much Jesus statues. BUT there was an organ player playing his little heart out and the pipes literally filled the entire chapel. It was epic sounding. Made the church experience much more interesting! We climbed to the top of the tower, looked over the cute town, and took a breather....it was quite a climb!
After Lausanne, we drove to the Callier chocolate factory! Tres delicious! We did the factory tour so we could learn not only how chocolate was made and where it came from, but also to eat a crap load of it!
We were so full after this tour. We got to the point where we were sharing small bites, or even worse, tasting and throwing the rest away! Blasphemous, no?
It was a delicious day and we enjoyed it thoroughly!
Today was an easy day compared to yesterday. Not nearly as much walking, that's for sure. First stop today was Vevey with Will as our guide. It's a super small town. So small that I wouldn't even consider it a tourist attraction. It IS however, the home of the Nestle Headquarters as well as a Charlie Chaplin statue (due to the fact that he spent the last bit of his life in Vevey.) We sat by the water's edge and Will pointed out where Italy was.
We then went home, picked up his kids and wife from school, and then drove to Gruyeres, the cheese making city. (Aaron and I brought plenty of lactaid pills) The specialty dish of Switzerland is raclette, as well as fondue. Raclette comes from the French verb 'racler' which means 'to scrape'. This is literally what you do. You warm the cheese and then scrape off the melted part onto either some bread, veggies, or potatoes. Tres delicious!
The fondue was also amazing. We had a hard time deciding which was better. All we knew was cheese in general was awesome! We also visited the town's castle. Some of the armor inside was from the 1400's and was stolen. It was a small castle by Europe's standards, but beautiful nonetheless and had a great view. They had a hedge maze and Aaron, Will, and Soren enjoyed playing tag.
After Gruyeres, we drove home and made up our own game of dodgeball. Two people would sit in a chair because everyone was too lazy to play the normal way (not true since they were pooped out from playing Monkey in the Middle first) and one person would run by hoping not to get pelted by balls. 
We arrived in Switzerland this morning and met up with Aaron's dear friend Will. (We're staying with Will and his family for the entire trip which is so nice of them.) Today, we did sightseeing in Geneva, one of the most expensive cities in the world. We saw the Jet D'eau, a huge water fountain that shoots water up to 459 feet. Aaron and Will dared each other to go stand under it, and Aaron went further and got much wetter than Will. That little guy in the picture is Aaron....
We then checked out the Geneva cathedral. It was a very simple church. After the church, it was lunch followed by a watch maker's exhibit at a museum. It was overwhelming to see floors and floors of clocks and pocket watches. 
And of course, we had to get sweets since it's Switzerland and they're famous for their milk chocolate. I had a framboise macaroon while Aaron had a caramel salt and butter one. 
And for chocolate, we had some nougat chocolate (less than stellar) and a cubed piece....hopefully tomorrow, we'll get better explanations of what we're buying since the lady behind the counter at this particular bakery was not good at telling the customer what they were pointing at aside from the fact that it was chocolate.