OUR TUESDAY 11 MAY

We've been out all day today. Firstly we headed into Basel to celebrate Lily's 2nd Birthday. Lily was born at 500gm so she really is a little miracle. What a lovely time we had seeing her and catching up with lots of our other friends at a Cafe in Basel.

Then we headed by bus across the border to France. While waiting at the bus stop we watched a lady be most helpful to a young lady with a pram. Very special. We had to visit the Railway Station in St Louis to change all our internet train tickets for REAL train tickets. This was done with the minimum of fuss by a very efficient employee of SNCF. We then visited the Post Office. Now remember, neither of us speak French, so it's always interesting to visit the Post Office. We wanted 20 .85c stamps!! To complicate matters, I asked for 'pretty ones'!! Although the man didn't speak English, he knew exactly what I meant. He only had 6 pretty ones so off he went to find some more! Some of you might benefit from this little visit by receiving pretty French stamps on one of my letters!! These little incidents always give us warm fuzzies inside as we think of kind people.

Whilst in France I just had to buy Self Raising Flour and real brown sugar!!

Then we headed off to the movies to see 'The Blind Side'. Roger was given 2 movies tickets for his Birthday last year, so they were able to expire!! There wasn't a lot of choice. We really want to see 'Invictus' one of these days. It's just about finished at the theatres in Basel but is on at 11.00 on Sunday's!! Not a good time for us.

The movie was great. Sandra Bullock sure is a star. It started to absolutely bucket down just as we arrived at the theatre, so we were glad to be safe inside!! A great way to spend an afternoon.

Then it was home safe and sound and feeling rather tired from a lovely day out. Tomorrow I really must get some serious work done before we celebrate Ascension Day holiday on Thursday. Hopefully it won't be raining and I can get a bike ride in as well. Also need to do some baking to take to friends. Fun, fun, fun!!