Aufwiedersehen, Switzerland!!!!....und merci viel mal!

Goodbye Switzerland!

Our time here in Switzerland is swiftly waning, and my melancholy is correspondingly waxing.  Regardless of all my rants and mocking of the shortcomings of the Swiss people and culture as I perceived them, Switzerland, and particularly Lucerne, has come to steadily grow on us in many ways.  When all is said and done, the Swiss, over the course of their many centuries of occupying and caring for this region in central Europe, have created and molded an idyllic country of incredible, unsurpassed natural and man-made beauty.  They have managed to remain neutral in most world affairs, to jealously guard their economy, culture, and legacy, and to avoid the wars that have repeatedly devastated the rest of Europe for the past 500 years.  They are a very serious, and in many ways, cold, people, but they care deeply for, and take pride in, their country and each other, and well they should.  They are industrious, productive, clever, and proper, perhaps to a fault.  The rest of the world could learn a lot from Switzerland, and I, for one, will miss it.  I have no regrets regarding moving to and living here, I have grown positively in many directions, and I am a better person for having experienced this incredible sojourn in the land of the Alps, cheese, chocolate, and cows.  Perhaps, one day, we will return here to live.  Thank you , Switzerland, for enriching my life, and I hope to see you again soon.

I will definitely be posting blogs onto this site in the future, but probably not as regularly as I have been for the last 10 months.  At this time, it looks as if we will be returning to Vegas, at least for a period of a couple of years, and not doing the cruise ship contract as we had hoped for.  This is because if our ultimate goal is to go back to Vegas and the security of my old job at Caesars (and many opportunities for my wife Timi), then I must return before a year has passed, for I would lose my seniority and accrued benefits if I delayed returning more than a year.  We really wanted to go on Crystal and do a little more traveling around the world,  but I guess it's not to be.  If this changes for some reason, then I will begin blogging regularly again!  If anyone wants to check on our lives, or just wonders what we've been up to lately, take a peek back here at Life's a Slice every now and then, and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them.  I'll answer any queries you have, and I have made the process of leaving comments easier now.  Take care everyone, and hope to see you here soon!

In front of Grand Casino Luzern