We took a beautiful, lengthy train ride up to Stuttgart Germany in hopes to pick up our visas. Our new friends Mike and Christina joined us with the same purpose. With our visas in hand we can get permanent housing, banking, phones, and many other necessities. When we arrived we believed we had just under two hours before the Swiss consulate closed. We went straight over only to discover we had misunderstood their hours. They are only open from 9 am to noon and we had left Zürich just after 11 am for the 3 hour train ride. We tried to get help anyway and they were ticked! It turns out we had to have passport photos ready, cash, forms and Chad’s and Christina’s visas both were not there. It was so discouraging. We know better now what to expect and what to bring and WHEN to be there. Hopefully our next trip will prove more successful.