A quiet week on the blog...

... but that doesn't mean it's been a quiet week! Kirk has been working insane hours and I have been having fun playing tour guide for our friends, Kim and Byron, who just left this morning for Italy. Of course the sun finally came out for the first time in a week just as they were leaving. Regardless of the really crappy weather, we had a great visit with them and it was fun to show our first visitors around Basel and its surroundings. Yesterday we took a train to a town a couple hours south of here called Thun. It's at the foot of the Alps and on a beautiful lake. I'm looking forward to going back sometime in the spring or summer when you can go out on a boat and tour around the lake. Apparently they stopped running on October 17, so we just missed the prime boat season. Today I have spent the day cleaning, doing laundry, and packing for our BIG trip. We leave tomorrow!