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The words of Maya Angelou: 

Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. 

These animal photos from Twitter made me smile too. 

@Fascinatingpics: This lizard looks like he's just hatched an evil plan to take over the world. http://t.co/GSmrIhlY3Y

@BBAnimals Just some ducklings chilling in a sink 🐥 :) http://t.co/Q5xmxBTghR

And I went for a bike ride. First exercise since my broken ankle. Hurrah!

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Up very early today to fly home but smiles were raised by all being allowed in the Swiss Lounge, Jude and Isaac insisting that 6am is a perfectly reasonable hour to eat Mövenpick ice cream and having no one in front of us on the plane so being able to fall asleep on my table without being jiggled. 

I've saved the above photograph for a few days - part of an advertisement (below) for Technorama, the science museum just outside Winti. It's for an exhibition about noises. Amused us all!

And here's another advertisement that made us smile, especially given how many Gipfel we've eaten in the last few days!

I've spent the whole day thinking it's Saturday - I blame lack of sleep. 

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Gobsmackingly beautiful Switzerland.
This is what I miss most - lakes, hills, and snowy mountains peeking through the clouds.
San Salavatore in Lugano today - delicious lunch atop the mountain, a nature walk (bit of a challenge given my recovering ankle), funicular railways and a walk along the lake from Paradiso to Lugano before the train back to Zürich.

And funny advertisements too :) This will look good on the classroom wall.

Got to be up early tomorrow to go home - can I smile at 5am I wonder??

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Lots of Swiss smiles today. 

A train ride to Rapperswil where we found large letters in the street as above and below as well as beautiful roses in the castle/chapel gardens. 

A boat ride from Rapperswil to Zürich - not the sunniest day but beautiful.

And a lovely evening spent with the ZOBI and family; delicious food, good company, Prosecco and lots of fun with my favourite little Swiss Misses making bracelets. 

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Top smiles today! I saw so many friends at ISW and in Winti. Thank you all for making the effort to come for coffee and/or lunch or say hi at school. It was great to see you all - just sorry I was too busy chatting to take any photographs (of people!) So good to be back!

Quote of the day has to be my "how did you do that?" as I saw Beate with new baby. I meant how didn't I know but everyone was a little concerned that I needed a lesson on the birds and bees...

Thank you for the chocolates Carmen! 

I like the new Rivella variation.

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We're in Switzerland. I'm smiling broadly and I'm not alone! Jude and Isaac are also very happy as they haven't been back since we left last July. John isn't so excited as he comes every week!

Good to see Blick am Abend still has their Schnügel des Tages - ducks today. I wonder if we'll see ducks on the way to ISW tomorrow?

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One more sleep to Switzerland!

This made us smile today, especially our resident musician Jude.

And this made me smile as the book buff in the house!