We made it back to Rotterdam last night. We haven’t posted anything in awhile. Sorry. We were in Paris the last coouple of days. Wow! Mark you better start saving your money because I am going to convince Cami that she has to go see the Eiffel Tower. Definately a must! Dad we got you some good chocolate in Switzerland.
Mark Stephens, AKA Robert X. Cringely, recently posted an article about Apple’s recent release of Boot Camp and the future of MacOS on the Intel platform where he states:
I predict that Apple will settle on 64-bit Intel processors ASAP (with FireWire 800 please), and at that time will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware…
Frank Boosman on his pseudorandom blog disagrees and challenged Cringely to a public bet.
Here is my take on the subject:
I think what most people are forgetting or simply don’t understand is that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. they write software to support their hardware lines. iTunes was written to sell iPods (thus being cross-platform).
We stayed at the Backpacker’s Inn last night. It’s great little hostel in Interlaken. The room was clean, beds were comfy and not having a bathroom and shower in the room really wasn’t a big deal. The bathroom was just across the hall and the showers were next to our room. It included a free breakfast and free wireless internet, which was awesome.
We were able to attend the temple in Zolikofen yesterday. What a wonderful day. I would dare say perfect. We had the most enjoyable time. When we arrived at the temple they asked us to be the witness couple for the next session in French. You can imagine the tiny bit of hesitation that must have entered our minds. We let them know that we did not speak ANY french.
We flew into Geneva this morning. It was a short flight from Amsterdam, but we were very lucky to make the flight. We arrived at the train station just a couple minutes after the train we planned on taking to the airport, so we had to wait a half hour later. We arrived at the airport just 45 min before our flight. We got our bag checked, through passport check and security check pretty smoothly, but we did seem to always pick the slowest lines. At the security check-point I got selected to have my back-pack searched, but KayLynn ran ahead to make the flight. I followed shortly and she had them hold the door a couple minutes until I got there.
Once in Geneva, exchanging money and getting our car rental went fine. We had a bit of trouble finding our way to the right highway to Bern, but everything worked out. Once in Bern, we drove around a bit. Then we got a hotel room and rested for a bit, and then went over to the Bern Temple and took some pictures. Then we went to get some dinner and KayLynn selected a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant.
We are going to do some temple work tomorrow and go visit Interlaken later.
I don’t know how many of you have ever used public transportation. I have not. Can you believe that. So, we went to Amsterdam yesterday. I think Mac already explained the process to get there. When you first get off the train you leave the station on the Metro. There are bicycles everywhere. I don’t know how to describe the amount of bicycles that you see. It is amazing.
