“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller

We had visitors this weekend! Bryan (Jenn's brother) and his wife, Leslie, are on a world tour for a year, and we got to be one of their stops! They left Seattle in April and started their journey in Europe. They are moving soon to Eastern Europe, India, Asia, South America, then up through Mexico, and back to Seattle. It was so great to see them, and we did both European and American things.

The first European thing we did was drink German beer that tasted like bacon. John has never been happier to do European things. Bryan and Leslie brought it straight from the source in Germany, and they weren't lying when they said it tasted like meat. Like dinner in a bottle.

We had enchiladas for dinner that night, which was the first American thing we did.  To balance out the 'ladas, we drank some French wine, and it was at that point that I decided I should take Friday off from work. The three of us went to Yvoire, a little medieval French town, on Friday. I liked this field trip because we got to go on a boat ride to get there, and I got a crepe for lunch. We also stopped at a cafe (called The Pirate, how cool can you get??) for a glass of wine.

We drank lots more wine that night and celebrated Friday night pizza night. We also had a special guest since Jenn skyped in for our weekly date night. We ended up skyping for almost four hours. A few times she told us she had to get going to go to the bathroom, etc, but we assured her we would be right there waiting for her when she got back. It was like she was hanging out with us all night. Hope she didn't have any plans on Friday.

Saturday we went to our favorite French market (French), ate bread, salami, and cheese for lunch (very French), and then headed to downtown Geneva where there was a Rave like parade going on (definitely not Swiss, not really French, so maybe American?). There was a parade of trucks going down the road with people dancing, etc (I'm leaving the etc general on purpose). Apparently this is an annual techno parade in Geneva. Who'da thunk the Swiss had it in them?

 

 Bryan and Leslie got scared off by the $15 mojitos, so we came back to the apartment for some more wine (French) and Bryan's homemade mac n cheese (deliciously American).

I can't think of anything European we did on Sunday because we declared it an American lazy day. Bryan and Leslie needed one after being on the road for almost three months already, and John and I deserved one because, well, it was our apartment. So we watched Friends, Family Guy (some of us watched Family Guy), Leslie straightened her hair, we played card games, and we ate pulled pork for dinner. Yes, we ate all of the illegal pork. Meat never tasted so good, like rebellion.

They headed out on the train Monday morning. They were off to Zurich for the day and then on a night train headed to Amsterdam. They do a monthly recap on their blog of that month's "best and worst", and we're hoping to make month three. Luckily Amsterdam is in month four, because even though we're fun, I'm not sure we're that fun.

The Dolin B&B is happy to have you back anytime, Bryan and Leslie! Bon voyage!