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I sometimes wonder about the sanity of my family but I'm the loopiest of us all so what do I expect?

We went to Amden to visit some friends and we all went on a long walk down the mountain to the lake. It was a warm day and we were rather hot so paddling seemed in order. Jude on the other hand decided to jump into the lake. As you can see from his face, it was rather cold, but he enjoyed it!

un lac - a lake

une montagne - a mountain

Jude nage dans le lac - Jude swims in the lake

C'est un peu froid! - It's a bit cold!

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Yes, two photographs today as I wanted both of my boys in today's post.

We went on a family trip to Uetliberg and walked the Planetenweg to Felsenegg for lunch and a cable car ride down to Adliswil and home. Apparently there are a lot of Planetenweg  Plantenweg is a walk on which scale models of the planets are placed in scaled relation to their position in space. So the sun at the start was huge followwed by a tiny ballbearing for  Mercury, a bigger one for Venus and so on. These planets were close together on the path, with each metre representing a million actual kilometres, whilst other planets were further apart. And Pluto appeared twice due to its orbit.

So, today's German - the planets - die Planeten

Earth  die Erde

Jupiter  der Jupiter

Mars  der Mars

Mercury  der Merkur

Neptune  der Neptun

(Pluto)  der Pluto - now officially a “dwarf planet” (ein Zwergplanet)*

Saturn  der Saturn

Uranus  der Uranus

Venus  die Venus

If you fancy labelling them in order they are :

Die Planeten - Sonnenordnung

The planets in solar order (outward from the sun)...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto)*

Der Merkur, die Venus, die Erde, der Mars, der Jupiter, der Saturn, der Uranus (der Pluto)