Oh-Lausanne-a

This weekend we went to Lausanne (about 2 hours S-SW of Basel). Lausanne is located on Lake Geneva and being in the western part of the country the prominent language is French. We went to the Olympic Museum which has a fantastic location on the lake, beautiful grounds, and a compelling theme…The Olympics! The museum has some fantastic exhibits: a history of the founder, a collection of ancient artifacts from the original Greek games (some as old as 2000 BC!), all the torches that have lit the flame at each game, examples of the bronze, silver and gold metals from all the games, and examples of Olympic posters, stamps, coins, etc. from all the games. The picture shows Robert reaching up to the bar that is set at the Olympic record for the high jump (unbelievable!!!). We also went to see a very unusual museum called MUDAC. See our pictures here.