Easter Friends and Family April 3-5

20150403 174541 The Friday before Easter Bri and Nico came to Montreux 20150403 174547 where we prepared beef brisket per a NYT recipe with horseradish 20150403 174559 An opportunity to toast our good fortune 20150403 174602 of having our daughter live close enough to come for Easter!
20150404 084110 It was daffodil season 20150404 084122 Daffodil art 20150404 084138 Daffodil art 20150404 101426 Careful of the impeller in the latté!
20150404 122125 Nico awaits lunch on Saturday 20150404 122141 Kitchen scene 20150404 122152 Just can't get enough of those daffodils! 20150404 122223 More daffodils!
20150404 154838 After lunch we went to Le Chable to see an exhibition on The Valais That Never Was 20150404 154810 Everything red represented a project that was proposed but never built! 20150404 154425 How about a hotel built on top of and reiterating the shape of the Emosson dam 20150404 154311 A whole life captured, well, portrayed in four photos.
20150404 155554 Walking back toward the station in the drizzle 20150404 183630 Dinner was our now famous Sauerkrautstrudel 20150404 183634 Here it is going into the oven 20150404 183818 Nico preparing apples
20150404 183838 We gathered around the laptop... 20150404 183644 and skyped with Vivi and Val 20150404 183649 Val in real time 20150404 183703 Does she have Vivi's hair?
Screen Shot 2015-04-04 at 6.51.55 PM The Modern Family (ga-ga grandparentsincluded!) 20150404 193425 This is the Sauerkrautstrudel after the oven- yum! 20150405 132105 Easter Sunday - Christiane Darbellay came down early from Nendaz and went on a walk with us... 20150405 133410 up through Sonzier...
20150405 133937 where we could see recent snow on the mountains. 20150405 141656 Coming down Le Cubly 20150405 144041 Free daffodils... 20150405 160649 which ended up on our table
20150405 160742 and in the salon 20150405 165552 Easter dinner with Mirko, Christiane and Kilko 20150405 180330 So many desserts! 20150405 180332 including the panatone dove.