Nik and Rahel Baumann came over for dinner with their kids. We have to hang out with them more. They live in a town really close to here. Maybe I’ll be able to start going to soccer practices with Nik. This Saturday Elisa and I are both going to be in a soccer tournament! I’m more excited for Chad than I am for me. At least if I do terrible they won’t ask me to do it next year. 🙂 Elisa made brownies for dinner that everyone talked about for the rest of the week.On Saturday Elisa and Rachel got to go to a baby shower. Tony and I went swimming with the kids. There is this swimming pool just down the block and it was so fun. There is a heated indoor-outdoor pool where we can sit even if it is cold outside. The kids had a fun time too.
After the baby shower, Elisa and Rachel met up with us in Dietlikon. We went to a town called Stein am Rhein. It’s billed as the best preserved medieval town. We liked it enough that we’ll probably go back there when we have visitors. It looked interesting, and old. 🙂 It wasn’t a bad place to buy chocolate either.
So after a crazy fun day of swimming and paddling around with everybody Alyssa, Rachel, Natalie and I drove way over to Erin Jackson’s for a very fun evening with the ladies. We had great snack food and attempted to watch Pride and Prejudice (but we were having so much fun chatting that I do not think we saw more than 5 minutes of the movie collectively). We had a spa night; which you can imagine was pretty scary to see. But wait–imagine no longer, we took pictures to show the hard work it takes nowadays to be a passable pretty gal. Rachel and I got a ride back to the Zurich HB very late and had to take one of the night trains. Never take a night train unless your life depends on it.
Girls Night Out
On Saturday we had to take advantage of the great weather so we headed down with the Mascaro family to Zug. We met up with the Barlow family and a new family to join the “We’re such cool Americans that we have moved to Switzerland” group. We went down to old town Zug, which is beautiful and then we all went out for a little paddling and swimming on the lake. The water was great! I really do prefer lake water to pools. I think so too because the water was perfect. We ate some brats and some really good ice cream, saw a bit of a beach volleyball tournament and set off. Actually there were lots of kids with us, so it took 90 minutes to set off, but we went as quickly as possible.
Zug Paddleboats
