Weekend

This weekend Alex and Fin visited. They were here from late Thursday night until this morning, and a splendid time was had by all. I think they liked it here- Alex was especially pleased that there was snow (even though it didn't actually snow. The snow from Monday just hasn't melted yet) and they were generally impressed by how festive it was over here.

After I met them at Zürich Airport, we got the train back to Wil and walked to Rickenbach, stopping off at McDonalds on the way- with great self control I managed to not get something, instead I just stole a few chips. Wahey! On Friday then we just went into Wil to have a nosy around the town, although I had to teach a lesson in the afternoon so I just left them to their own devices, leaving them with a lovely map of how to get to the school, so I could give them a very quick tour of it. Then we went to Arts pub, (place we went before, mum) and had a couple of drinks and food. They both had burgers, I had chips, and then we staggered back (we weren't drunk!) here and watched the most terrible film in existance, "I Could Never Be Your Woman" or something like that, a seemingly plotless film with random appearances from people such as Graham Norton and David Mitchell- the main "stars" were Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. It was absolutely bloody awful. I actually fell asleep. It had absolutely no redeeming features.

Anyway, on Saturday we went to Konstanz for the day- there's a nice Christmas market there- and it was all lovely and festive. I took Fin to Woolworth, and she seemed to be fairly impressed by it. Alex was just very pleased at all the lovely festive things. The place was absolutely packed- hundreds of people weaving their way in and out of the stalls- but it was very nice, and Alex & Fin managed to buy some lovely festive things (such as gingerbread and decorations). When the crowds got too much (after about an hour!) we went to Latinos for some nice Mexican food, did the market again, then went to a cafe hidden away from the market by the end of the Bodensee to have some glühwein (which Fin was not a fan of..). We left Konstanz around 7 and then went to Arts again for a drink, walked back here, watched When Harry Met Sally, had some glühwein and festive snacks, they decided to watch Hocus Pocus, which I wasn't really that into (sorry!) and then this morning we had to get up early so they could get the train to the airport. Unfortunately bus timings meant it made more sense to walk, and we underestimated the amount of time needed to get to the station, so as soon as we got there I comandeered two ticket machines, punching in the appropriate details for the journey, as the train arrived at the platform. Fin got her ticket without any problems but the machine did not want to accept Alex's money, so I sent Fin up to the platform and shoved my debit card in, willed the machine to hurrrry UP! and when it eventually printed the tickets my goodbye to them was something like "GO GO GO THAT'S THE TRAIN THERE GO GO GO SEE YOU ON THURSDAY GO GO GOOOOOOOO!!!".

Anyway I had a very enjoyable weekend, and now I'm looking forward to next weekend, as I'll be in Brighton from Thursday evening until Sunday afternoon- can't wait! Christmas dinner time! And of course I'll get to see the wonderful Fin & Alex again, as well as Toby, and Jay of course, and enjoy a few cocktails..