The River ROCKS!

While Christian and Tracy were at Camp Helaman at Kandersteg, I offered to take Bryant and two of his friends, Matthew and Jared, to a campsite just 20 minutes away from Kandersteg -- in Frutigen, Switzerland (Okay, well I slept in the car, but the boys were in a tent!). They were all for it even though I told them that the weather forecast was for rain -- and lots of it! But we were pleasantly surprised when we had only partly cloudy days and a little bit of rain . . . I think the rain found its way up to Kandersteg though! They were rained out for a couple of days.

The Frutigen campground offered free bike rental in case the boys wanted to go exploring, but they were mostly content to play down by the river -- all they needed was a little mud, water, and river ROCKS!

Here are the boys on the first night. They were just getting ready to build a fire with some wet wood and a little drizzle . . . they gave up when the drizzle turned to steady rain.

More attempts at a campfire . . .

They spent all of Friday morning building rock "kingdoms" complete with moats, towers and waterways.

The proud princes and their "kingdoms."

The campsite also had free internet so the boys watched a movie the first night (while it was raining). This didn't pan out for the second night though since they had drained the batteries on the laptop. I happened to unwittingly drain the battery on the car too (Hey, I was doing my homework!) so the camp owner gave our 2005 Toyota Sienna a jump start with his WWII Jeep -- He proudly informed us that it was 60 years old! We should have taken a picture because it was quite the sight.

It was a pleasure to be back in Switzerland even if it was only for a few days . . . such beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers . . . and camping buddies!