Drifting randomly, it occurs to me that it is somewhat interesting that, though the Scandinvians seem to have embraced English now, the immigrants in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin, carried on in their native languages in schools, newspapers, and in a rather extensive publishing industry. Ole Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth" which is a classic novel about American pioneer life, was written and published in this country, in Norwegian.

And as to your tourists, CraigS, had you considered that they might have been Swiss?