Tuesday, May 28-Lugano, Switzerland

 We could tell as we were driving the night before that we were going through a beautiful area, but it was too dark to see.  The view from our Airbnb was incredible to wake up to.

 We had a slower morning, giving everyone a chance to rest a bit after the past couple of busy days and late nights in Venice. Preston slept in until 10:30!!

We drove up the mountain to the Mount Bre lookout.  The roads were very skinny as we snaked up the road.  What looked like a single lane road would suddenly have a bus or trash truck coming toward us.  

 There was a playground and some hiking trails at the top for everyone to enjoy.

 We then went to the Castelgrande Bellinzona which was really cool to explore, but at this point it was raining pretty hard.

The boys didn't mind and wanted to just keep climbing the rocks, despite being cold and slippery.

We made it back just in time to head to dinner.  A friend from Ian's mission was kind enough to invite our entire group over to eat in their home.  They had a huge spread of food including cheese, meat, fried cheese, bread, roasted red peppers and tomatoes.  And then as we had almost finished eating informed us that was just the appetizers and brought out lasagna and then 2 huge cakes.

The family lives in a small section of Italy that is enclosed within the country of Switzerland.  The wife was originally from portugal, so James was able to speak portuguese with her with Ian and his friend spoke Italian.  The kids were all happy to play despite the language barriers. They were such gracious hosts.