Monday, December 15, 2008

10 More Days til Christmas!

Not a whole lot going on here. Last week it snowed pretty much constantly for the majority of the week so it's rather cold still. I can't wait for April. I finally ordered a Swiss adaptor for the Wii so hopefully I will be seeing that in the mail soon. Nick and I are stoked. I spent some of this last weekend in Zug again. Heidi, Amanda, and I went to Zug fairly early Saturday in order to walk around the city and enjoy the decorations and the scenery. It's a really pretty little town with a great lake. We stayed with Jill again, who made us a delicious fondue dinner which we washed down with gluhwein (a popular warmed red wine this time of year here). Except for the semi common occurences of the house almost being burned down by children because Swiss parents let them play with things like lighters and knives and other dangerous tools, last week was fairly average. The whole family has been sick and coughing all over me and my food so inevitably I also have a bad cough right now. I am trying to get all of my Christmas vacation travel plans organized since we are only 10 days from Christmas! Right now it looks like we will be heading to Florence to celebrate Heidi's 23rd birthday. Today I was supposed to have off except for sending the kids to school in the morning but Jana and Christian decided to do some Christmas shopping together for the kids so I got to spend the afternoon home. Of course I was annoyed by this last minute change of plans that seems to happen often, especially since I am working so much this week already. I just can't wait for next week.

However, I took (or rather was forced by the kids to take) a couple of videos of the kids at the lake from this afternoon that I thought I would share. First is of Sanja, who found a crooked stick and thought it was hilarious to walk around like an old lady. I did, too actually and here is the video:



Also, the kids had so much fun with this fallen tree branch. We were down there for about an hour or so and they were playing on this branch most of the time. They would sit on it like a teeter totter and rock back and forth and they would also act like it was a horse. It was rather cool. But here is a video of Nick that is pretty funny:

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Looks like every one is having a great time. Where is all the snow? We got a few inches yesterday with more to come.Is it cold? It's suppose to get down to 16 degrees in the mourning.