Amazing Surprise for us in St. Moritz

Well, in order to understand our amazing surprise , I have to first fill you in on a little family history. Grandpa Fuller and his mother, Ada Fuller, visited the Palace Hotel in the early 1930's. Grandpa often told us the story about "parachuting "from the terrace of the Palace Hotel" when he was here with his mother.

The story goes that he was with several other children and they were going to "parachute" to the terrace floor below. At the last minute, Grandpa decided to "test" his "parachute" and filled a wicker basket with books from the library. He attached a sheet to the basket and threw it over the railing. Predictably, it sunk like a rock and scared Grandpa to death. It was along time before he ever told anyone what happened that day on the terrace when all the ladies were having tea!

We related this story to our travel agent, Arlene Feen, who immediately put people here at work to see if they could locate any information about Ada Norfleet Fuller.

Low and behold today we got the answer!!! We all thought we were going downstairs for a "Gabriela Surprise" but in reality, it was we who were surprised!! The Director of Sales and Marketing of the hotel and his colleague, Deborah, met us in the lobby and took us to a table in the dining room that overlooks a grass tennis court! They had done a great deal of research in their archives and located several articles about Ada being here in 1934. There was a photograph in the newspaper with Ada and several other people sitting at the EXACT table in the hotel where we sat this afternoon!!! It was thrilling!! Duffy (Mary) was teary eyed when she heard the news and saw the newspaper clippings that referenced Ada and her son, Billy Fuller, Mary's husband!! They gave us copies of all the articles and a CD that has all the articles they discovered in their archives!!

I know they spent a lot of time researching all of this for us and we are so grateful!! I had already told them (even before the surprise) that I thought this hotel is my favorite hotel of any place we've ever visited!! The staff has treated us like royalty and the food is superb! They even have awesome American coffee!! And it would go without saying that they have one of the most spectacular views of any place in the world!!

Tonight we took the funicular to the top of a mountain to have dinner. It was wonderful! Once again, our tummys were full as well as our hearts! What an absolutely phenomenal day!! If you ever get to St. Moritz ( and you should all try) you must stay at this wonderful hotel- Badrutt's Palace!! It has been great in the summer and I'm quite sure it would even be more spectacular in winter!!