Melchsee-Frutt

OK, now this wkd trip didn't start out quite as nice as Braunwald. It started with Lukas puking in the car on our drive. Nothing new for us, but this time Lukas followed up the car puke with about 4 more pukes in the gondola parking lot. We rode up in the gondola with a plastic bag at the ready - luckily we didn't need it.

Lukas & Rob washing out the "car puke bucket" in a little creek. We finally wised up with the bucket idea...only took us about a dozen or so pukes before we got a clue.

Our destination was Melchsee-Frutt. This is just on the opposite side of the mountains from Engelberg which we hiked a few weeks ago & loved. I had seen photos of Melchsee-Frutt & it looked beautiful:

When we got there though, this is what we found:

Hmm... false advertising, don't you think? The beautiful alpine lake was nearly dried up - so all we found was mud - and a bit stinky too. Even worse perhaps was that the "trail" around the lake was a paved road with loads of people. Yuck. To top it off, the clouds & wind moved in.

So after a quick lunch we decided to head up a ridge trail for better views. So glad that we did. Once we got off the paved road, the other people disappeared and the scenery was much prettier.

We hiked the ridge to the peak & then took a chairlift back down. Lukas was eager to get to the gondola restaurant so that he could play in a ball pit. He got involved in the throwing "fight" that was going on in the pit between lots of Swiss kids. He's really learning to hold his own & defend himself against the often aggressive Swiss kids. Rob & I got to enjoy coffees & gipfels as we watched the match.

Lukas could have stayed in here forever.

We ended the day with a stop at the cute little hut at the bottom of the mountain that sold local cheese. (jealous Grandpa?) Very nice day afterall.

How Swiss is this?!