A failed expedition

Saturday morning we woke up and made a plan to go to St Moritz- a resort town in southwestern Switzerland to see the horse races on Lake Engadin. It's supposed to be quite a sight! We made a hotel reservation for the night, packed up our bags and headed for the train station after lunch. When we tried to buy tickets, they told us that they could not guarantee our getting there by the night because it was snowing so hard in the pass that the trains were not allowed on a section of track in the mountains. They had sent people on their ski vacation, hoping to take them via an alternative route, which was now also closed, and now the buses going around the closure were filled to capacity and it might mean a very long wait. The kids were pretty disappointed (and so were we) that we had to return to our apartment, lugging our bags behind us, the only adventure being spending an hour in the main Zürich train station. Hopefully we'll be able to make it to the races either this weekend or the next. Travis was wanting to see how they raced on skis with the horses (skikjoring with a horse!!). They also hold a major nordic ski marathon around the lake in March, so we will try to get there for that event as well.