Last Saturday we took a short day trip to take Jenny to Ballenberg. It is a giant farm museum with farm buildings representing the regions of Switzerland. We barely got through a 4th of it because it was so big. They have bread-making, farm animals, old homes, displays of traditional Swiss farm fashion…they most certainly did not call it farm fashion but you get the idea, carpentry, pottery and on and on. If you are interested in learning more about it here is the site.

Here are some pictures from our day….

The highlight of the day for Owen was playing with the cowbells

(this picture is for my sister-in-law Claire….if I am remembering right she loves poppy’s)

I am betting I have already posted this but it is worth posting again.  My cousin Nathan made these for us when Jackson was born. He brought them over to our apt and we ate them with vanilla ice cream.  Or rather we ate a little vanilla ice cream with tons of the peaches. The name butterscotch kind of scared me at first because I don’t think butterscotch is my fav but it’s basically a buttery, caramely sauce. Trust me! It’s good.

Nathan got the recipe from the New York Times. You can find the recipe here.

The recipe looks intimidating but it is not as hard as it looks. It isn’t a quick, whip up dessert kind of thing but it is worth it.  The beginning part of boiling the peaches is to make them easy to peel…check the peaches first, if they are easy to peel don’t bother boiling them. I always use vanilla but I bet the other extracts would be good as well!

ps-don’t worry, we didn’t eat a whole batch in one serving. I quickly popped most of the batch into the freezer to use when we have visitors! I have no idea if it will freeze well but I figured it was worth a try……for the sake of our visitors and my waistline!

Nothing too exciting to blog about today…I will play catch up next week. We have a busy weekend ahead of us. Jackson has a birthday party tomorrow to go to and then on Sunday we have his end of the year school BBQ. We are hoping to take Jenny to Ballenberg tomorrow morning where they have an outdoor Museum on Swiss living. It is a neat farm with demos on bread making, traditionally dressed up cows, all that swissy stuff. Tonight we were planning to go to the pool for the evening but it is a wee bit chilly this afternoon so I am guessing we will raincheck that plan. I am betting a lazy evening is more of what we need!

Here are some pictures from the week to leave you with!

Sweet, yet ornery, tan baby

Last day of school for the yr was today. It is sad for Jackson to move on to a different school but we has loved his time at the English Speaking Playgroup. It was just what he needed as he transitioned into life in Bern!  He got to ride the tram with Seth to school today…He asked Seth to high-five before they left.

(Seth packed his lunch yesterday and I thought it was pretty impressive that he managed to fit a HUGE piece of chocolate cake in! I snapped a photo as evidence. Rationed cheetos, pb&j, a mini me apple and CHOCOLATE CAKE)

Happy Friday! May your chocolate cake be exponentially bigger than your apple!!