Wine!

A week after returning from Scotland we celebrated our 4-year wedding anniversary with some Veuve Cliquot Champagne and a wonderful dinner at our favorite restaurant, Brasserie Lipp!









Then that weekend we celebrated some more by going up to Zurich with our friends Michelle and Paul to the annual Zurich Wine Festival! We took the train up early Saturday morning, getting us to Zurich about mid-day. After checking into our hotel, we walked to the lake's edge where about 10 or more large boats were all docked, each containing a couple levels filled with booths of wineries. We paid the CHF20 cover charge and began to drink all the wine we wanted!












We pretended to be wine connoisseurs, and chatted up the wine experts with as many questions as we could manage with some language barriers.  We took a break to get a sausage for lunch and fill our stomachs up before continuing our wine tour.









After getting our fill of wine, we walked through the town, getting some more food before stumbling upon the last celebration of Oktoberfest! We entered the tent, already filled with celebrating Swiss Germans, and luckily found a table to sit at. We had some hearty sausages and potatoes for dinner, then proceeded to join in the fun of drinking and singing the traditional Oktoberfest songs, making fast friends with our neighbors.



The next day, we had a quick breakfast before heading back to the train station to go back to Geneva. It was a quick trip, but a fun-filled one with some great wine and great friends!