Kenny's class played soccer together on a few Wednesdays (normally a day off school). He loved it and was sad when it was over. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5159.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5162.jpg) | In Lyon - interesting metal grille work on a building in the Place Bellecour | | Free Ben and Jerry's ice cream at the Place - they must have given away a whole truck-full! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5164.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5168.jpg) | Walking around Lyon | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5172.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5171.jpg) | Very nicely done fruit marzipan candiess | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5173.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5179.jpg) | These cookies at the same store LOOKED really good, but tasted blah. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5182.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5183.jpg) | In our hotel room | | A little open air mall at the Place Bellecour - the vendors were selling stamps |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5184.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5185.jpg) | On our way out to Parc de la Tete d'Or - beautiful park, with free zoo, botanical gardens, etc | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5187.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5188.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5193.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5194.jpg) | This little tunnel under the lake to the little island in the middle was, unfortunately, closed | | Beautiful grounds |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5196.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5197.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5198.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5201.jpg) | | | We rented a pedal boat |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5209.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5211.jpg) | Peter enjoyed this little horse/bike combo racetrack. He really got into trying to pass other kids | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5220.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5226.jpg) | | | Inside the conservatory at the botanical garden |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5228.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5235.jpg) | We were very lucky - we actually saw this venus fly-trap (the one in the middle) close on an unsuspecting insect | | Highlight of the visit to the park for the kids - the bumper boats. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5247.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5248.jpg) | On our way back home we stopped at a very quaint and touristy medieval town of Perouges | | We bought a few of these - basically big sheets of flat baked bread, with sugar sprinkled on top, which carmelized |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5259.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5267.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5276.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5285.jpg) | Interesting old "store fronts" | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-11-2013-lyon/gallery_img_5287.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-05-2013/gallery_20130505_112121.jpg) | On the way back we avoided the highway for a bit. I love these tree-lined roads | | The first place winner at the Geneva Marathon. It was on the Mont Blanc bridge close to our apartment, so we went to see the action. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-05-2013/gallery_20130505_120133.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-05-2013/gallery_20130505_122639.jpg) | ... And here he is crossing the finish line | | The first time I've seen this - there was a drone hovering around the finish line. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-09-2013/gallery_20130509_102817.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-09-2013/gallery_20130509_105112.jpg) | We took a walk from Nernier to Yvoire - two towns along Lake Geneva | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-12-2013/gallery_img_5290.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-14-2013/gallery_20130514_123009.jpg) | Mother's Day presents | | A few pictures from around the UN |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-14-2013/gallery_20130514_123113.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-14-2013/gallery_20130514_124806.jpg) | Great views in the beautiful grounds | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5291.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5294.jpg) | I went on a trip to Lucerne, just me and the kids, when Eric was in the US. On the train ride there - FINALLY we encounter a train with a children's compartment! It was noisy but the kids had fun. | | Getting ready to take the cablecar up to Mt Pilatus, close to Lucerne |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5297.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5304.jpg) | | | At the top, these birds were very aggressive if you had any food at all. They swooped within inches of your fingers, and anything dropped was gone in moments. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5305.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5309.jpg) | | | The views at the top were great. We picked a good time, too, there was a short window of nice weather. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5310.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5315.jpg) | | | Not a place I'd like to hang out! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5318.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5323.jpg) | | | The wildflowers were just starting to grow where the snow had melted |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5325.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5327.jpg) | I had planned on taking this train - the steepest cog-wheel train in the world - but it ended up you needed to take a ferry to get to that one. | | On the way back, we stopped at a huge playground. This is the beginning of a huge slide |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5328.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5336.jpg) | What a setting! | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5341.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5344.jpg) | Views from the cablecar ride down. I like the look of lots of the Swiss apartments that I see - lots of greenery incorporated into the design, and very efficinent yet human-scale | | At a very contemporary styled McDonalds in Lucerne |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5345.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5348.jpg) | Walking to our hotel, with some chocolate milk containers that I bought so the kids could get the Migros promotional tops, which were all the rage at the school. | | On our way to the Transportation Museum in Lucerne |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5356.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5359.jpg) | | | In the Transportation Musuem |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5362.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5365.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5372.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5373.jpg) | | | This site kept the kids busy for a good hour. It was designed like a kid-sized container shipping demonstration |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5375.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5374.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5376.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5381.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5382.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5387.jpg) | | | This man's wife asked us if she could take a picture of our kids. At first I thought - she wanted a to do us a favor and take a picture of the three of us, but no, she wanted a picture of her husband and herself with my kids. A little strange, but okay. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5388.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5391.jpg) | | | This was a hit - the kids really enjoyed trying to run up it. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5392.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/05-18-2013-lucerne/gallery_img_5397.jpg) | | | From one of the towers in the old city walls |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/05-27-2013/gallery_img_5404.jpg) | | | Peter's class at school did a "sports day", where they spend the whole day on activities such as races, ball throwing, etc. They were very lucky - it was a sunny day, sandwiched between a lot of rainy days. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |