Welcome to our blog!

Hi everyone-- welcome to our blog, 'SwissViss'.  We are new to the world of blogging, so bear with us through the growing pains.  Hopefully by the end of our 2-year adventure, we will be pros, right?

Our goal with the blog will be to share our many experiences here in Geneva and the rest of Europe, while they are still fresh in our minds.  Because of the time zone difference, we know we won't be able to chat with our friends and family as often or long as we'd like, so hopefully this blog can fill in the gaps and keep everyone up to date on our whereabouts and activities.  Moreover, we figure this would be a fantastic way to log our experiences for our own memories' sake.

Because this is the first post, we will give everyone a little refresher on why we are in Geneva:

As most of you know, we both work for Expedia and the company has just opened a new office in Geneva to focus on strengthening our hotel / lodging presence in Europe.  Dave was asked to fill a Project Manager role that will be based here.  Realizing the two of us are sort of a "package deal", Expedia offered to transfer Ang's job, too.  Both of our Directors will be based in Geneva as well, so everything fell into place in an unexpected way.  Also, from a personal perspective, we have tossed around the idea of living overseas for a short period of time before our life gets re-prioritized with kids.

The whole idea is a bit crazy (!), but we are excited to take on the adventure.  We have embarked on a new way of living, new surrounding and a new culture-- and are trying desperately to learn a bit of French.

Many of you know that the two of us share a passion for travel.  In our first 3 years of marriage (we'll be celebrating our 3rd anniversary this week!), we have had our fair share of travel adventures and feel very blessed to have had those opportunities.  Here's to a new chapter of travels over the next couple of years!

Love,
Dave & Ang