Hi from Bern, Switzerland

Hi everyone, the day before we headed out from Paris on train for a 4 hour ride to Geneva, Switzerland. The ride was wonderful and the countryside was rolling and lots of agriculture. We got into Geneva about 5 p.m. and basically were starved and there were not many restaurant choices around so we ended up at McDonalds. Then we walked down to the Lake Leman, the huge lake in Geneva. There it was lined with 5 star hotels and out on the breakwater there was a hugh, and I mean hugh, fountain shooting up by the docked boats and yachts. It was like a hugh fire nozzle shooting a couple of hundred feet in the air. We walked around looking at the boats and hotels and came back for sleep.
We got up early and went down to the lake and went the other way and along the lake they have beautiful promenade walkways. As we didnt have much time, this was all we could do.
We walked to our train (Jay our travel agent, set it up that we could walk to train stations wheeling our luggage behind us. It saves on cab fares). Today was just a 2 hour train ride but we were on top of a 2 decker train and the train went slow because it went through several towns so we had great views of vineyards and dairy farms and small villages. Everything here is green. And we got into Bern about 2 p.m. We are in an older part of town that has a river on three sides of it. On the other sides of the river across bridges I suspect is the more modern part of Bern. But its enjoyable to walk around the expensive shops (window shopping only) and all the buildings here are made of some kind of greenish grey stone. Its pretty with flower boxes in all the windows of all the floors but the buildings are all the same color. The churches are the same too. I wonder what type of stone it is and where they got it. We found an Italian restaurant tonight that had an English menu as we cant read Swiss German at all.
They speak German here (Geneva was still French) but its Swiss German and its different. We are all struggling to figure things out but we usually find someone that speaks English to help us. So we are doing very well.
Tomorrow we are picking up the rent a car and hitting the open road. So I dont know when our next entry may be, depending on what hotel we find and if they have internet service in the smaller villages. Stan wants to head to Interlaken and then north to where his parents came from. I cant pronouce the names let alone spell them but it should be exciting.
Hope everyone is well, and we miss you loads. Lots of love from all of us to all of you.