October 6
The train ride to Zermatt was beautiful (and it was so nice to not have our kids with us because it was two hours long with a layover). It looked a lot like Utah, and thanks to a friendly ticket lady learned about the fallen mountain and fighting bulls we saw along the way. Once in Zermatt we walked through the town (a very rugged-feeling mountain town) and got souvenirs for the boys (a horn for Thatcher and a St. Bernard for James). We hiked a little ways up the trail to the Matterhorn and had beautiful views the entire time. The weather was perfect: blue skies and not a cloud in sight to cover up the Matterhorn which was as awesome as we hoped it would be. I loved the stone roofs we saw on homes everywhere and the milky white water of the creek as well. After soaking in as much of the Matterhorn as we wanted we grabbed some lunch at a bakery, ate it outside, then walked around more of Zermatt. We stumbled on to a cemetary which was full of the tombstones of mountain climbers around the area. We finished our Zermatt trip with the Matterhorn museum. Our train got delayed and we missed our connecting train on the way home and ended up spending an hour in the town of Visp which was kind of fun because of how beautiful and non-touristy it was.
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