Happy Love Day

So, Valentine's Day is not celebrated in Switzerland. On Saturday I had the idea that we (being Americans) should make some valentines to give to our Swiss friends, but then I remembered we don't have a printer, nor did we have any plain paper. So I was lame and didn't make any. Lame me.

So for some really cute lovey posts you'll have to click HERE or HERE.

Yesterday I made us all write little love notes to each other that I read out loud after dinner. Brett had been the scribe for Hazel and Ethne, and he had written EXACTLY what they said. So when he asked Ethne what she wanted to say to Jethro, and she said, "nothing," he wrote it. Then we read Ethne's out loud, and they said things like, "I can't say anything to her," we all started laughing sooooo hard. The next one I came to that was from Ethne, I said, "This is from Ethne to Hazel," and I couldn't read it because I was laughing, and everyone started laughing, and Jethro was laughing so hard he was practically crying, and he gasped, "I'm laughing and I haven't even heard it!" Good times. Then I gave them all a sucker I had bought in Bern. Hazel's was a flower, Ethne's was a butterfly, Jethro's was a soccer ball and Tell's was an orange.

Oh, and let me not forget to mention what Brett's Valentine's Day present was to me... a RED minivan!!! Wooohoooo!! I am very excited. We haven't picked it up yet, but Brett went into Zurich yesterday and put down some money to hold it. It's a Chrysler Voyager, and Brett says it's an abomination to buy an American car when we're in Europe, but hey, we have an American-sized family, so we need an American-sized car.