Marching on

Hello again. Not much has happened in March, TBH. Even as I look at my photos to remind me, there really weren't any events of note. So for the Missourians out there, here is what Ilona found and chose to wear the other day:



And here is Bluet's choice from yesterday:


& Ilona in a different outfit, I think also yesterday


& Bluet's painting clothes from Saturday


& Ilona's too small raincoat to take Bluet to kindergarten last week


Yesterday at the animal playground (Wipkingen)


& last weekend riding bikes at the school playground

back to the pirate playground

The weekend after Della, Gus, Simon and Angela left, Bluet needed a stapler. As we knew of a stationary shop near the house we stayed in when we first moved to Zurich, I decided to take Bluet there on the Saturday to buy one. We then stopped by the English language bookshop, and I showed Bluet where our house used to be (not surprisingly, she doesn't remember). However, she does remember the pirate playground next door, and there she happily played for an hour or so, as you can see. It's a great playground, but unfortunately it is about as far away from our house as it is possible to get in Zurich, so we don't go often.

More visitors

As soon as Emily's Mom and Aunts had left, we had more visitors. This time it was Simon, Angela, Della and Gus, all the way from York, as that week happened to be a holiday in both Switzerland and the UK. Obviously the kids loved having their cousins around, not only because they got to go to the dinosaur museum and Spaghetti Factory, and do many art projects

And some more photos from Italy

From our second day in Como, including the boat ride

Italy, for the first time

Last week, Nana came to visit with her sisters Kathy and Lee. We decided to take a short trip to Italy (3 hours on the train, including through the world's longest railway tunnel, at least on the way back). We went to Como on Lake Como, home of George Clooney (and given how good and cheap the espresso is, I don't know why he drinks Nespresso....)




I have never been to Italy before either, so I was very excited to go eat the food. NB Italy is the ideal holiday destination for the kids as 3 of their top 4 foods (Pizza, Pasta and Risotto) are Italian (for the 4th, we need to go to Japan). We were only there one night but we had the chance to eat fresh pizza, take a boat trip around Lake Como, go up some winding streets so narrow that you could reach out and touch both sides (yet Italian's drive their tiny cars round the corners at great speed), take a funicular railway up the hill, eat Gelato, and generally chill out and enjoy that everything was half the price of Switzerland.

Bluet's Gallery

Here are a few pictures Bluet has drawn recently on the whiteboard

My favourite - 'man pulling up his pants (trousers)'