We drove to Haute-Nendaz, Seitzerland for Christmas. It took 10 hours because we remembered we forgot our passports 30 minutes into the drive and had to backtrack. The drive itself was luckily uneventful. Luxembourg looks like Belgium, the Alsace wine country of eastern France is lovely and that box is checked, and Switzerland stops you to pay a 40 CHF tax when you enter the country.
I've never had my own car in Switzerland and always relied on the excellent trains before. Turns out the highways are excellent too. They have more tunnels then I've ever seen, so we didn't have to wind through the hills until we came between Sion and Nendaz. Then wind we did, climbing up the mountain to Chalet Henri, our rental home for the week.
We spent our first full day getting organized, renting the kids' equipment and playing at the playground in the snow. The whole time I just kept looking at the mountains. They are exactly as beautiful as I remembered them. Totally worth the trip by themselves. We took Cole and Lauren ice skating and then bungee trampolining before dinner and early to bed for their first day of ski school on Monday!
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