I hope this blog finds you all good wherever you are. Things are great here in Switzerland and the adventures keep coming. So first off, how about the opening ceremony the other day? Wow,
pretty remarkable, I think they probably employed a group the size of Fiji to make that thing happen. It was really neat watching the opening ceremonies in another country and truthfully I dont know that I have ever been more proud to be an American. I know it sounds hokie but its really true. When you see an Olympic team showing up from a country like Zimbabwe or Sudan, knowing what these people have come from and will go back to, I just cant help but feel so fortunate for so many liberties which I was literally born into.
Yesterday we went into Lausanne for the day and explored around for a bit. We first stopped at this store called Jumbo which is equivalent to a Dicks Sporting Goods in the states. This was a sobering visit when I went to the shoe isle and found picture A. 199 Swiss Francs for a pair of Mizuno Wave Rider 11's? These shoes are about 90-95 USD in the states, and the swiss franc and the dollar are trading at about 1.08 Francs to every 1 USD. That means that these shoes are selling for 183.94 in dollars?!? Aparently, however, Switzerland is widely known worldwide as having one of the highest standards of living which really doesn't suprise me. Aparently Starbucks baristas get paid something like 26 francs an hour, Beth do they pay you that much at Murky?
Anyway after that cultural lesson learned at the Jumbo, we pressed on to the International Olympic museum which overlooks Lake Geneva in Lausanne. Really what are the odds of
American being in Lausanne, Switzerland while the Olympic games are taking place? Exactly...pretty slim. The museum was pretty incredible, so much so that we spent 6 hours in it. I could go to length about all the artifacts they had preserved from before the time of Christ, or all the torches used from all of the modern day Olympics out on display, or even all the sweet signed olympic gear they had (signed pair of Jordans, '92 Dream Team, really), but this blog really couldn't do it much justice, so you'll have to wait and hear it in person. Anyway after the Olympic time, we came back to the base, ate dinner, and pretty much laid low the rest of the evening.
American being in Lausanne, Switzerland while the Olympic games are taking place? Exactly...pretty slim. The museum was pretty incredible, so much so that we spent 6 hours in it. I could go to length about all the artifacts they had preserved from before the time of Christ, or all the torches used from all of the modern day Olympics out on display, or even all the sweet signed olympic gear they had (signed pair of Jordans, '92 Dream Team, really), but this blog really couldn't do it much justice, so you'll have to wait and hear it in person. Anyway after the Olympic time, we came back to the base, ate dinner, and pretty much laid low the rest of the evening.Sorry for the lack of brevity, but its my blog and I do what I want.
Love
B
2 comments:
wow.... from toilets, to the olympics, to expensive shoes..... your blog always keeps us guessing, brother dear!
miss you bunches. chili bean says "hi uncle blake"
i love you
good thing your mom hit up that running sale in carey before you left. be well, brotha!
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