In less than 24 hours, we'll be heading home! It seems like it went by in a BLINK of a eye, and yet was littered with hundreds of incredible memories. These 7 weeks have truly been an unapproachable assortment of lifelong memories...Just to give you a glimpse into our last week here...
On Friday, we were taken to a dinner at a castle in Bottmingen. The dinner, the ambience, and the FIVE COURSE meal were, well, incredible! We were honored to be guests at such a fine meal (let's just say it's a LITTLE better than Chili's). Here is a picture of the group that took us there, minus the president of the board.
On Saturday, we spent the day celebrating our ONE YEAR anniversary (haha) by going to Organic Andy's, our favorite coffee hangout, going to the Zoo, taking a nap, going to dinner at Lilly's, and then meeting our friends Zach and Shayne for a late night coffee. A perfect day (I bought Emily some EUROPEAN shoes and she bought me an Amazon gift card, journals and a LONG note - my favorite LOVE LANGUAGE!).
Then, on Sunday, we played our games. The baseball team traveled to Reussbuhl and defeated the Eagles 15-3 and 8-2. Our team is awesome! We are 10-1 and in first place. I'm truly blessed to have such a great group of baseball players. We play a very Chapman, Coach T style of baseball. Everyone bunts and we're the BEST EXECUTION TEAM IN THE COUNTRY! I finished 3-5 on the day with 6 RBIs, a HR, and pitched 1 1/3 innings. I'm sad to leave them behind for 6 games, but they'll do even better without me! They are easy and fun to coach and play for the LOVE of the game only. It's a beautiful thing...
Emily's team beat up on another opponent, 9-1 and 15-1. She pitched game two and was 3-4 hitting. She's hitting over .666 on the year, and they are 10-0 since she's been here (11-3 overall). She's only going to miss 1 or 2 games, but she'll return in time for the playoffs and the European Championship Cup in Prague!
On Monday, we had a softball/baseball team SOFTBALL game and a BBQ after. Here are a few pictures of that
Last, we are just cleaning up around our place, packing our stuff and saying our good-byes to all the wonderful friends we've made (okay, not good-bye forever, but for 1 1/2 months!) We have been so so blessed by their warm hospitality and generosity. We feel that we are a part of a super group of people and an organization that is very well run and put together. Now, we head to Hawaii for 7 days, and then home, finally, to Minnesota for a month and I think we're getting married sometime in there! Just kidding! We'll post again after we return to Switzerland on August 19th!
