So on a Saturday early in the month, we went to Ballenberg- a Swiss open-air museum. The website says: Ballenberg – Switzerland as it used to be. More than one hundred century-old buildings from all over Switzerland, 250 farmyard animals, traditional, old-time gardens and fields, demonstrations of local crafts and many special events create a vivid impression of rural life in days gone by. Ballenberg is indeed unique.
Basically, I thought of it as a really really huge Nauvoo, without the church influences. :) We had a wonderful wonderful time. We brought wurstli and grilled it for lunch (because that’s what you do in Switzerland) and played by the creek for a while, and petted some goats, and saw a ton of old houses and other cool stuff. It was a really beautiful, warm day. So. Here are some pictures.
I really love old-fashioned kitchens. I think they’re so beautiful. 
And I want a table like this one:
The guy doing wood-carvings was AMAZING. And I loved looking at all the cool things carved of wood, but unfortunately they have QUITE the hefty pricetags.
6 comments:
Cool! I love visiting places like that. That last house is beautiful. It does remind me of Nauvoo, with a Swiss influence. :)
How fun! I love the buildings, they look so sweet and cozy. Were your kids able to pet the animals?
very cool! (I love that carved nativity! so pretty)
Pretty amazing! That last house looks like a music box house my grandma puts out at Christmastime. And I love that table too! And I think Swiss Cows are cute--thought that one is a bull and he's huge!
I was going to say the same as Kristi - That would of been perfect to add to my collection. And the same as Tracy - That last house looks like my grandpa and grandma music box. They got a lot of stuff from Germany at Christmas time from our relatives there. As you know, Grandpa Boehme is German.
I want that table too. I love the picture of the steer, I want to sit at that table with the cloth and the flowers, and I want to come visit!
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