getting back into the swing of things

so this post and many others are long over due. my only excuse is three weeks out of my last month and a half have been spent in the u s of a. plus i got a job (!!!), which is tending to take up some of my time these days. on top of that, i'm just starting to think about my fluency exam before its too late! either way, i will be back to posting by the end of the weekend. for now, enjoy the matterhorn:

weinachts markt

of course zuerich dresses their xmas tree top-to-bottom in swarovski crystals. what else would they do? shiny...(photo: zuerich, hauptbahnhof)

photos from the swiss rivera

i can't figure out why these won't line up, but you get the point...