Chad and I had hoped to use our long weekend to get out of town and hike through the Cinque Terra in Italy. We decided that staying home was better than searching for hotels along the way that were booked out and might not accept a darling baby girl like Eden.

We ended up going on one of our “Must do Swiss trips”. We met up with our friends Jarrod, Jenna, Lexi and Mia Todd (who had Kelsey Price in tow) in Konstanz. We took a sunny, relaxing ferry over the Bodensee with a stop in a cute little town for ice cream and on to our destination Mainau Island. The island is a big bunch of beautiful flower gardens. I can’t imagine a better way to spend the day. The weather was perfect and the flowers were beautiful. They also had the most ideal playground ever! I had so much fun, even though I came away with a nasty wound from getting my had pinched in the rope ferry. Elisa was dying for an excuse to play with the kids on the toys. I guess I walked across the rope bridge too. She took a little chunk out of her hand unfortunately. But, Elisa, it’s not my fault that the iodine stings. That is what I get for playing with the big kids.