License to Drive

After getting all of our paperwork in order, we went to the Swiss equivalent of the DMV today and we are now the proud owners of Swiss drivers' licenses.

It is exciting to finally have these drivers licenses and it is a huge relief.  Fortunately, people from the USA do not have to take a drivers' test in order to obtain a Swiss license.  We just had to get eye tests done at an optometrist, get photos taken at a photo store, get someone from at the Vevey city hall to sign off on a piece of paper verifying our entry date into Switzerland, and then we brought it all to the DMV.  After a less than 10 minute wait, we handed over all of our papers and we were handed our drivers' licenses.  The efficiency with which this happened was truly amazing.  The Illinois DMV could learn a thing or two from the Swiss!