08/08/24 Port Basel, Switzerland

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - How is it time to be kicked off the boat already?! NOOOO!!!!

It was with great sadness that we left our floating luxury cruiser. It was so nice to have someone make and clean up every meal, even have snacks sometimes too! And mock-tails at 6 p.m. if we wanted them...every night. Not to mention doing our laundry and making our bed, cleaning our bathroom and turning down our pillow each night and placing a chocolate on our pillow. I just didn't want to leave! It went so fast!

BUT...that being said...the after tour was the grand finale to an amazing adventure!

After sadly leaving the boat, we loaded all our luggage into our tour bus and headed to The Old Town, The splaentor. We saw Lucerne - the Lion Monument and had lunch at a riverside restaurant. We saw Chapel Bridge and then went to our hotel.

We stayed at the Astoria Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland. We walked around Lucerne and found a local restaurant.

Tour bus in style

Trash is different there. You purchase these
bags for $3 each. Then you put them out each
week for collection.

more beautiful graffiti

The Friends bar!
How cool is that?

Gwen and Sandy

Movie Theater

Cool water feature fountain

Found another creepy decoration

riverside luncheon

Sandy

Carmen and Sandy

Sweet couple
Wish I could remember their names

Ralph, Carmen, Sandy

Lion's Monument

Chapel Bridge

Ellie and Mike

Picture of luggage in case it gets lost

Ominous sign at our hotel

Comments

08/23/25 Organ

The Washington First Ward Building was sold to the City of Washington. Part of my responsibilities included dispensing of the organ and pianos in the building (along with other things). It is an Allen, approximately 1970s. I put the organ up on the auction. There were a couple of other people that were bidding on it, but I ultimately won the bid (for under $100). On the day I won the bid I was able to arrange a mover!!! I paid $250 to have someone from the piano store move it to our house (I have no idea how he managed to get that into the back bedroom....but he did it!!!) Then, it wouldn't work. 😭 I waited for approximately 6 weeks before a guy (who had to be 80 years old) came down from SLC and repaired the organ. (So the organ wasn't actually broken, it had to do with the electricity and the house talking nicely to one another.) It took him a couple of hours to figure it out. He charged about $200 and voila! I have a working church organ. Cool, eh? Now, I got...

06/27/25 Drew Ellerman's Retirement Party

Steve Whittekiend, Kelly Carlson in front Mayor Kress Staheli in back Thad Seegmiller back of head Police Chief Jason Williams, Councilman Troy Belliston Jordan Hess, Councilman Bret Henderson, Finance Brian Brown Mayor Kress Staheli and Councilman Craig Coats Danice Bulloch (former City Recorder), Shelly Griffin Hana Park and Tara Pentz (current recorders) April and Drew Ellerman April & Drew Ellerman, Kathy Spring (former assistant to Drew) Bonnie Baker (current assistant) and Drew Drew

03/27/26 Trip to Italy, Day 4, Friday, Venice to Florence

We headed out around 9 a.m. and got some breakfast in the train station. We played some games until it was time to go just at a table outside of the restaurant. We traveled from Venice to Florence by train… about 2 hours. It was really comfortable and nice and fun to watch the countryside go by. They even served soda and a snack on the train! Upon arrival we dropped off our luggage at the travel agency. Found some food at a grocery store and ate on a bench on the street. The streets were sooo busy! We then had a tour of the largest cathedral in Italy, Duomo, the crypt below and Kevin and Becky climbed the bell tower. Over 400 steps to a beautiful view of Florence. Fun fact...every city in Italy has a Duomo - Duomo means the biggest (most important) chapel in that city. We walked back to our place…and wow!! It’s on the fourth floor and it is awesome. Very spacious 2B3b with a washer. There was a little tiny elevator to go up to the apartment. It had windows so yo...

Griffin Family

Search This Blog