Hotel Alpenruh Restaurant – Lunch with a View

February 24, 2012 by Heather Lucier Stanley 0 Comments

For lunch, several in the group descended to Mürren to eat at the Hotel Alpenruh Restaurant. The food was excellent. I had a small bowl of lentil soup with goat cheese for 12 American dollars. The food in Switzerland is expensive; on the mountain, it is even more expensive. One person in the group ordered more food than she could eat and shared her hearty traditionally Swiss meal with those of us who had only ordered soup.

This restaurant does not take credit cards; if you go, bring Swiss Francs with you.

The purpose of my trip to Switzerland was to visit many hotels and ski areas in Grindelwald, Wengen, and Interlaken to propose to Austin Skiers a ski trip for the 2012-2013 ski season. Holidaze sponsored the familiarity (FAM) trip.

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Selecting a fence stain color

February 23, 2012 by Heather Lucier Stanley 0 Comments

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The third week we had the house under contract, the builder asked that I pick out a stain color. I have strong opinions about stain colors. I do not like orange or red undertone stains. I like a yellow undertone medium brown.

I went to Sherwin-Williams and looked at color samples. An extremely nice young man offered to take the fence post out of my car and apply the stain for me. I was expecting to apply the stain myself, but he insisted. He applied two coats of each stain, rubbing off the excess stain with a rag between coats. After he applied the stain and it dried, he put the fence post back in my car.

I love the Hawthorne stain. In other remodels, the builder used a darker brown stain. Yet, the builder loves the medium brown that I selected.

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