Last day in Switzerland - can't beat hanging out with friends and family

June 29, 2018

Today was our last full day in Switzerland, and we thought about going to see some more sites, but we opted for a slower-paced day.  We had seen Noemi’s (Mimmo and Maria’s youngest who now has 5 kids of her own) family once when we first got to Switzerland, but we hadn’t seen them since then.  We wanted to get together with them this week, but the evenings they were available, we were in Germany, and they had things going on the evenings we were back in town.  So we missed Noemi’s husband Ivan, but we had lunch with the rest of her family today (along with Mimmo, Maria, Josh and Marie). 

We wanted to get some chocolate and souvenirs for family and friends so after lunch, we went with Noemi into the town of Yverdon where she lives while Grandma and Grandpa watched her kids.  We found most of what we needed, and the town was getting crowded because they were having a traditional Swiss festival that evening.  We were able to see one of the men warming up on his alphorn. 

Sadly, we forgot to take pictures with Noemi’s family.  It felt more like we were hanging out with them than an actual stop on our European vacation, and we just forgot to get pictures (a mistake we repeated the next day with anther family as well).  I will be sure to include some old pictures I have of them in the blog.  (I just found one of the old pictures of them, and I am ok with that choice because I was thinner and younger looking in the older picture - time is not my friend).  So we said our goodbyes to Noemi and her family, and on our way back to the Vigliottis, we did a little more shopping with Maria (we had to get a few bags of Farmer Croc - our favorite Swiss cereal). 

We stopped by Fabio’s house as well to say goodbyes to our goodbyes to his awesome family as well, and then we had our last Maria-cooked dinner – pasta with homemade carbonara sauce.  We played a couple more games of petanque with Josh and Marie, and Mimmo and Maria had to go to the airport to pick up Noemi’s oldest daughter who was coming home from a school trip.  It was a nice relaxing day hanging out with family and friends.