September 2007

Well the fun part is over and it is back to work for Michelle, after a long break, it takes some getting used to. Back to work at home too with some serious gardening and Duncan doing a mean Tarzan impersonation climbing around the trees chopping off branches.   The 10th saw us doing the Emmental Slow-up, this is were they close a street circuit for skaters, cyclists and people generally who want to have fun. According to the papers there was 23000 of us out there having fun. We hired some Flyers (electrically assisted bicycles) for the 38 km circuit. It was a party in each village we went through, sometimes it was very difficult to even continue cycling. The day concluded with a nice train ride on an old steam train. Duncan had an interesting evening at the Raubtier Park in Solothurn. He saw Tigers, Pumas, Jaguars, Lions and Polar Bears. The Owner hat the cats perform various tricks, it was the size of the animals that was the most impressive though, particularly the Polar bear. The last weekend in September saw us meeting up with Karin for dinner and a film at the Cinema, we saw the Bourne Ultimatum, other than that the focus was slightly off, it was a good film. Sunday we visited Olav and Petra und Zurich, we went for a nice walk around the Katzensee, Duncan got to show off with his new GPS Watch. The interesting thing is being able to import the track of were you have been into Google earth, and even do a virtual fly over. We had so much fun doing the Slow-up through the Emmental we decided to do the Slow-up along the Lake of Zurich. Olav came on his Inline skates, Duncan and Michelle had a definite advantage with the Flyers. We only lost him once. Olav is pretty fit though, because he didn't even ache the following day.

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