A most pleasant Sunday

We wanted to post a couple of pictures from our very enjoyable Sunday with the Neifert family- Patrick, Christy, Ethan and Megan. They are passing through as they make their way to Strasbourg, France to renew their visa's for living in Russia. We had a great time catching up, sharing stories and a meal. They are our first official visitors from out of town (and country). It is amazing to me that even though we have not been together for nearly a year and much has changed in our lives, it is like we were just together last month. We loved sharing our day together: Michael made sausages and Rösti (sort of a shredded potato pancake), Delynn prepared the fresh vegetable tray from the stuff we picked up at the farmer's market yesterday morning. We walked around the city and took them down to our school. They arrived just in time to experience the first Basel "Slow-up". The Slow-up is 40KM of public road in the Dreiländereck closed to allow bicyclists, walkers, runners, roller-bladers to freely travel the three country region. The route closed down most of the Hauptstraße in Weil - luckily Patrick and Christy had a navigation unit in their car so they could handle the many significant detours and still find our home. As I said, today was practically perfect in every way.

Weil am Rhein Hauptstraße - closed for the Basel "Slow-up"

The Neiferts in the "City of Chairs" (Weil am Rhein)

Patrick - wheeeeeeeee!

Did we mention that Weil is called the "City of Chairs"?

Just so everyone knows, Delynn and I finally got our airline tickets booked for next summer. We will be arriving in PDX on 24 June with our return trip back home to Germany on 29 July - 5 weeks! We were really blessed to be able to use Skymiles to upgrade to Business class, so that will make the trip easier.

Well, that's all for now. As we say at RIA - Enjoy Life!