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| Okay, guilty as accused! |
| 06.27.04 (10:20 pm) [edit] |
Alright - I am going to make a concerted effort to update this damn thing more often!
It really has been busy here - work is extremely hectic as we head into the final stages of commissioning the new plant. The weekends have been busy as well - here's a brief run down of this past weekend....
We started out Friday night watching Greece kick France's arse in the football quarter finals (semi-finals maybe? I'm not sure, I'm still trying to figure out the game and how teams are eliminated).
Saturday Karen and I headed to Sion with the girls to hike up to the Castle ruins:
Very cool castle - not too bad of a hike up there. The girls were pretty impressed.
Yesterday we took the train with some friends up to Zermatt to go on a hike. The temperature was perfect for a hike up there and we hiked around the base of the Matterhorn for about three hours stopping midway for a picnic lunch and a snowball fight when we came upon a random pile of remaining snow. A good time was had by all and we finished the day grilling up some ribs on our deck. Very relaxing day - I hated to see the weekend end.....
3 more days til John and his crew swarm in to leave a little more American influence on the Valais! We can't wait to see them and Elisa is very excited to be able to show off Switzerland to Caitlyn. For that matter, we're excited to show the area off to Johnny and Lisa as well!
Next week (July 5th) we are on holiday for a week! I can't wait - no work for 9 days! And to top it off we are going to head off to Rome with Johnny, Lisa and Caitlyn for 3 days of exploring another ancient city. It should be a good time and we are expecting to have many "blog-worthy" stories when we return.....
Anyhow, that's it for now - I really do have to get to work..... Til later -
Brian and Karen
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| Long lost......blogs |
| 06.14.04 (2:19 am) [edit] |
Okay, we stink at this blog thingy lately. Actually, we have been crazy busy. Elisa finally came to visit us on the 3rd of June, so things have been very very hectic but wonderful. Last week we had another catholic holiday on Thursday (which we spent at the big thermal pools by our house) and we went to Locarno Switzerland on Friday and Saturday. It started with a beautiful train ride through a spectacular gorge with the swiss alps on one side and the italian alps on the other. Locarno is at the northern tip of Lago Maggiore (Lago means lake). We had a great couple of days and took a boat back on Saturday. I will have Brian post some pictures.
It has been wonderful to have Elisa here. She is already learning German. Brittany will be here in about 2 weeks. I will tell you though, I thought just having two working adults in die Schweiz was hard!! Add in a child as well....wow, it is impossible. There is no way on a long term basis to have two working parents here. We need to do laundry and grocery shopping tonight. So, we both have to leave work early and I will go to the grocery store for day 1 of groceries (our grocery list is larger than I can carry by myself) and Brian will take the bus to pick Elisa up and get home as quickly as he can to get laundry in. Hopefully he can get there early enough that we can have enough time to do three loads of laundry tonight. I will finish the grocery shopping tomorrow after work. Ugh.
I will make sure Brian posts tomorrow including some nice pics from the weekend.
catch y'all later!
Karen and Brian
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