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Trip in Switzerland : the Emosson dam

On Monday, Claire went on school trip to the Emosson dam, in the Trient valley, in front of the magnificent Mont Blanc panorama. The Emosson dam was built between 1969 and 1975, and it’s the Swiss’s second largest dam (capacity 227 millions m3).

She did the route by car from the school up to Châtelard (1125 m – 3690 ft); the car was well filled, because Claire and her colleague left with another class and its teacher.
Then, from Châtelard, she took the steepest two carriages funicular in the world ! This funicular has a maximal slope of 87% ! In 10 minutes, Claire had arrived at Montuires station (1825 m – 5987 ft).

From there, the little panoramic train led her during 10 minutes on the mountain side up to the foot of the Emosson dam. The landscape was simply amazing.

Finally, Claire arrived within 5 minutes at the Lake Emosson (1965 m – 6446 ft) by means of Minifunic, which slope reaches 73% all the same !

From there, she had an nice walk on the dam and on the lakesides with her pupils. On the way back, she showed them the charming chapel of Gueulaz, dedicated to Notre-Dame-Des-Neiges.

The day took place smoothly, and everybody was delighted. The trip back was made by the same way.

Upon her arrival at the house, Claire dreamed only about one thing : take a shower ! Thus I had to verify myself that she had emptied her bag well before tidying it up until the next excursion.

Cat World Domination Day

Click on the picture to join Summer’s party !

Cat World Domination Day was introduced by Angel Sparkle for the day of her birthday, on June 24th. This tradition continues to be celebrated by Summer, Binga and Boodie at SparkleCat, and by a large part of the cat blogsphere.

Internet already belongs to us, we are not far from our purpose. We have nevertheless to find what could replace human thumbs to dominate the world. Do you have some ideas ?

Beyond that, Claire leaves for a school trip on Monday in the Swiss Alps there, and we’re already delighted to show you soon photos of the landscape !

How to teach your human to relax ?

To allow her to face the stress of the last school weeks, I showed to Claire how to do a relaxing massage by rolling on the ground :

I didn’t see her rolling on the floor, but she understood well the notion of relaxing posture :

At this period of the year, the school governance meets several times to make the decisions of promotion of the pupils of 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade. The 11th grade students are taking their exams for their certificate. You’ll find links at the end of the article which will allow you to understand better to what correspond these various school degrees.