First Communication From Scott

Scott is in Switzerland for the next two and a half weeks. He is with a group of seven BYU professors and students. They will be camping on a glacier in the Alps drilling ice cores, making thin sections, collecting water samples, and mapping and taking data. He has been gone two days and I just received the first and possibly only email from him. I have copied it below.

"Hello from Zurich:
It is 5pm local time, but with jet lag feels much later. We arrived early this morning, rented a van, and headed to the Sterner Hotel. The day has been a bit of a chinese fire drill trying to find needed camp food, isopropyl alchohol, tools, tarps, etc. etc. It would be easy back home, but lacking a Walmart we had to ferret out 4 or 5 individual stores and then figure out how to drive there, and of course these are little shops on one way lanes with no parking. But, we now have got it all packed in the van for an early AM departure. Five member of the group head to Zermatt via the train. Summer and I drive the van, which should be scenic, but we have to get to Zermatt and turn in the rental truck by 5pm. I am the only driver, which is too bad since I will probably still be feeling the effects of jet lag. At any rate, it is nice to be in Switzerland again. It has lost somewhat of its novely, but perhaps that will return when we get out of the city and into the Alps.
This may be the last time to send an email for awhile, so I love you all and will be thinking of you. By the way, I am having french bread, Gruyere cheese, Perrier water, and chocolate for dinner (all of the 4 basic Swiss food groups).
Love Scott"


This email came the next day:

"Kathie:
The drive was long on curvy roads, but we now have all of our gear at the Air Zermatt heliport for an early AM recon of the glacier and then they dump us and the gear on the ice. We spend tomorrow setting up camp, which should take some doing and be ready to beginning sampling on Friday.
I love you and am thinking about you and Amy daily.
Love
Scott"