Connor and Eddie
Last saturday night our dorm was invited to one of the girls dorms to play a night of "Maffia". It's a big group game. The guys all dressed up in maffia looking attire. The younger guys (middle schoolers) were also invited since this dorm has middleschoolers too. Connor was also invited. They had fun dressing up and acting the part.

Tiera and Jacob studying in Tieras room. Her mattress is now off the floor and in a proper bedframe.

Thursdays we try and spend as much time together as a family. When we have weekends off then we take the friday instead of the thursday. Here we are in a town about 10 minutes away at one of the Italian Restaraunts. They always have cheap deals on Mon, Wed and Thur. Tonight is 1/2 meter pizzas. Really good too. The inside of the restaraunt is really unique as you go down these stairs into what looks like an old wine cellar. This is the same restaraunt that we went to with Derksen's.

Jacob has volleyball practices 4 days a week and games on the weekend. He is on a team with 8 players. They had to try out for the team and there are 2 teams for the guys. He made the Varsity team which is the highest level. He was also made co-captain of the team. This involves a lot of responsibility in building up the team, being a servant leader and helping in any way. He's doing a great job. This saturday is a team building day so he will be gone for most of the day. Next weekend is a big tournament here at the school.

On Thursdays, our day off, we sometimes go to the school to watch Jacob in practices. We won't be able to have alot of chances to see him play in games. Many are away games...far away.

The Rhine River is so pretty running through Basel...especially at night. We were there last night with some friends and the moon was shining brightly on the water with all these houses and cafes lit up along the river. Very pretty. But on this day we were watching the river and all of a sudden we saw these heads bobbling along the water (this picture does not show them) and here it turns out that this is a common spot for people to swim down the river. Even the bridges are all marked with arrows to direct the traffic for swimmers and boaters. The river moves very quickly and people hardly have to swim because the current just moves them along. Looked like alot of fun. On this day it was really hot out and we were tempted to jump in ourselves. We heard last night that once a year they shut down all the barge/boat traffic and open this up to the public to swim down the river. There are police boats along the way to help out if anyone gets in trouble. Apparently it's packed as this whole swarm of people bob down the river.

Taking a walk through one of the plaza squares in Basel. This is beside the church cathedral.

Following a shopping trip and trying to put all the groceries away. This is a major ordeal each week.



Jacob and Eddie...the guys in the kitchen. Both are in grade 10!

Mark and I spent last Thursday walking around Basel. We took the bus in from Kandern which was about a 45 minute drive because of all the little stops along the way. The drive would normally be around 15 minutes. We had a wonderful time just exploring the sites....of course we made a stop at Starbucks first. This was like walking into Canada with the same menu.

These pictures are part of the town hall in Basel.

Muenster Cathedral