climb every mountain.

Mary Love and I spent this last weekend high in the Swiss Alps in a tiny village called Gimmelwald. As Rick Steves says, "If heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be, send me back to Gimmelwald." It truly is the most breathtakingly beautiful place I have ever been. Little wooden cabins are nestled amongst hills of wildflowers, which are overshadowed by looming snow-capped mountains. Every way you look, you see something new and uniquely beautiful. We spent the weekend compulsively taking way too many pictures.

For our first day in the Berner Oberland, we took four cable cars to reach the peak of the Schilthorn. From this vantage point, we enjoyed an impressive view of the Jungfrau, which is the tallest mountain in Europe. "Jungfrau" means young girl, and she is protected from the Eiger (Ogre) by the Monch (Monk). We spent the entire afternoon walking around and around the observation deck, watching the blue skies turn cloudy as the afternoon wore on.

The next morning, the weather was dubious, so instead of following our original plan to take more cable cars up to the Jungfraujoch, we hiked up into the mountains above Gimmelwald. We walked in and out of clouds and fog, and several times we got rained on, but we thoroughly enjoyed our misty walk. The setting reminded us of The Sound of Music, so we walked around singing Edelweiss.