Visitors

Under normal circumstances we probably wouldn't be scheduling visitors during Gretchen's ninth month of pregnancy, but we've actually had two sets of visitors who happened to be passing through the past two weekends who were luckily easy to host. Last weekend Gretchen's friend Beth was in Switzerland for work and decided to hop over to Basel for a visit. They go waaaaaay back (grew up together in Wisconsin, she now lives in Minnesota)...I don't know exactly how far, but enough that Gretchen just told me to "be sure to post the picture that looks like we're still in sixth grade." So, here they are:



Then, this past weekend our friends Alexis and Jay stopped by on a trip to Europe (mostly Barcelona and Germany) to celebrate their 10th anniversary. We spent a nice day with them in Luzern trying to avoid the rain, then had a nice Alsatian meal at a little Winstub in neighboring Saint-Louis (that's pronounced "san loo-EE" if you're keeping score at home):



A good time was had by all, but now we're ready to just hunker down and try to prepare ourselves for Baby's impending (yikes!) arrival...