Let there be light and Swiss Alps!

The weather guy was right for once, and today was as clear as a cowbell (and they have pleny of those around here!). The plan was to leave early and head for the Interlaken region where there is an outdoor museum called Ballenburg that has examples of all the different types of farms from across Switzerland. Very cool! Also cool because all of these houses and farmhouses are original, transported from their original villages, and inside every one there are exibits of traditional crafts and furniture/clothing/life in general.

Also, Interlaken is in a valley that is surrounded by the Swiss Alps:

I have about a billion pictures of a lovely little farmhouse in a field with the breathtaking Alps in the background, much like the one below, but I will spare you of the others.

What complimented the outdoor beauty of the museum was the examples of Swiss tradition inside all the buildings. There was traditional Swiss stuff:

And traditional Swiss barn stuff (check out the large cowbell hanging on the wall on the left) (cowbells, by the way, and sheepbells, are all you hear outside around here):

And for those of you who thought that the cheese factory I went to a few days ago was too modern (you know who you are!), traditional Swiss cheesemaking:

And traditional Swiss ceramics:

And then, just when I thought everything couldn't get more Swiss, there was...an Alp Horn concert, followed by...yodeling! No, really!

Afterwards, a stop at the lake before heading back home for the most traditional of Swiss dinners: cheese fondue!