We took Brian to the Rapperswil Zoo last weekend. We spent most of our time at the playground. Here we are on one of the big slides. Let’s go again!

I can’t wait to see these two in a couple weeks. Jennifer sent these great photos from their quick trip to Fort Michilimackinac.

The grapes are getting bigger. She can now high five. The rain has made the moss and the slugs happy. Some of the grapes are starting to turn red. Ewww – the thought of stepping on a slug grosses me out!

It is very rare that I wish I had a car – but today I wished I had a car. I needed to get some shopping done and so we headed out towards the train station. It started to pour and even though we had our rain gear on it was just too much rain.…

It has been very chilly and rainy here the last few days. We could use some of that heat wave that the US is getting. So yesterday we spent the entire day inside until about 5:00 when the sky cleared up and the sun came out a bit. I opened the kitchen door to let…

We’ve just returned from a little weekend trip to the Italian part of Switzerland. It really did feel like we were in Italy – we had to get used to saying grazie instead of danke shon. The good parts were seeing Bea laugh when she was splashing water on Daddy, seeing her explore a playground…

A Chilbi is a lot like a fair in the US except there are no animals. Just cheesy rides and games and Switzerland style fair food. So we decided to take an old friend of Brian’s to our local Chilbi on Friday night. Chris was in europe for his Dow Corning job and he stayed…

Last year we surprised Daddy with a bunch of balloons. This year we surprised him by throwing confetti at him when he stepped off the elevator. Bea gets a really big kick out of this. And I’m not afraid of a mess. I don’t mind sweeping up pink confetti – kind of like sweeping up…