There are some things that don't translate well...

During our time here, we have noticed that there are some words that do not translate well from German into English. For example, here is the local lottery kiosk...

And our local hearing aid store, or is it really a store front for something else?

And you can't have this center without a little protection close at hand.

The girls kept asking, "Mommy, why are you taking a picture of that?" They will find out soon enough! On our latest pilgrimage to the geek museum, we ran across an interesting spinoff of McDonalds.

This is a glorified bathroom. It costs 2 Swiss francs to use the WC (regular toilet), or 1.50 for the "pissoir". That term needed no translation! The baby changing station is called the "wickeln". This just cracked us up!

We are finally snow-free here, unlike our family and friends back home. Earlier the girls got bored with regular snowmen in the yard, so they made a life sized "snowcat".

We had an unexpected 4 inches of snow that evening, and before bed I looked outside, and the snow cat had some real visitors!

Stay tuned for pictures of some real snow cats!