So last week, we had amazing weather here in CH. It was relatively warm (about 10 degrees celsius) for the majority of the week, as you can tell by the picture above. Well, all this week it has been snowing like crazy. Boo! I thought that we were through with winter and last week got my hopes up. However, nature decided to crush them again. I guess, on the bright side of things, the snow is melting faster than it used to.
As of tomorrow evening though, what do I care? I will be enjoying Irish weather with the excitement of looking forward to traveling on to Scotland and then Dusseldorf, Germany. The kids start their "sports break" next week. It is another two week long vacation from school and kindergarten. My family will be leaving on Saturday for a week of skiing and snowboarding fun so Heidi and I decided to fulfill our desire of visiting some of the UK. We will be in Dublin for three nights, Edinbourgh for 2 nights, and then Dusseldorf for the rest of the week. Why Dusseldorf? you might ask. Well, my friend Ali is an au pair there and I've been really wanting to visit her. Next week is the beginning of "Fasnacht" or Carnival, which is kind of like a big Mardi Gras celebration here. They have a huge festival in the city of Dusseldorf where everyone dresses up and drinks a bunch of beer. In Luzern and Basel (CH) there are apparently festivals similar to the one in Dusseldorf, which would have been fun to visit since it would be in Switzerland. But then again, I really have been wanting to get up to Dusseldorf and see Ali so it should be a fun fun fun time.
Last week, I finally saw the movie "Twilight". It just came out in theaters here, even though it's been out in theaters for months now in the States. Other than that, I had a pretty chill weekend. I did have a little confrontation with Jana about some issues I've been having here. It was to the point where I was actually looking for a new family. After the talk, I felt a little better and decided to continue here for another month or two at least with the Bergers.
Today the kids and I made butter cookies, heart-shaped of course, for Valentine's Day. It's definitely not as big a thing here as it is in the States. The kids didn't know what it was. I guess they don't have parties or hand out candy to all the kids at school. But Sanja is taking some cookies to her friends in Kindergarten tomorrow because of my explanation of what you do on Valentine's day. Jaime recently received a love letter from one of his classmates. I can't remember exactly what it said but it was something along the lines (in German) of, "Dear Jaime, I miss you and your kiss..." Maybe it should, but it definitely doesn't surprise me that Jaime has been kissing other seven year old girls. He didn't seem embarrassed at all by the note and actually kept it with him during the week. Ahhh, young love. Speaking of, I got a package in the mail last week from Cody. It was a Wii game, Mario Kart. Since this was my favorite N64 game, I was pretty stoked. And the kids were almost as excited. Needless to say we've been playing it quite a bit this last week.
Below are some cute pictures of the kids over the last week. Nick is a monkey on a tree in their sweet treehouse, Sanja created a "tiger" out of dried tree needles (she was soooo proud of this), and another picture of Sanja coming out of the fort she created.
Well, I am off to pack for my fun-filled, action-packed, week and a half of traveling the world!
2 comments:
I am soo excited for you to come! It is going to be great! Have a safe flight to Ireland!
um i know this has nothing to do with your blog. but i had a hot date on valentines too. well not really, but i did this friday. and yesterday, and next friday. ahahaha....and i held hands in public. just because you aren't here to remind me how tacky that is.
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