Death March

After a nightmare 18 hour trip, we arrived in Basel yesterday afternoon. The good thing about our trip: the kids were very well behaved, considering they had very little sleep during that time. The bad things about our trip:

diarrhea
6 hour surprise layover in Heathrow, the Airport of Sweaty Doom
sleeping on a stone floor
pulling what was basically an all-nighter at the age of 42

And this isn't even a comprehensive list.

The apartment is nice but compact. VERY compact. I could take a picture of the entire kitchen, bedroom and living room while sitting on the couch. Also, they don't exactly have air conditioning in Switzerland. They call it "air freshening." So far, the difference seems to be that the room eventually gets cool, but remains very humid. So, there's a lot of sweating if anyone moves around too much. Fortunately, the dainty size of the accommodations makes it nearly impossible to move around too much.

We have no food, so I have to try and find a supermarket today. We think there's one right down the street, but I have to go inside to tell for sure. We had italian for dinner last night. The owner spoke mostly Italian, a smattering of German and very little English. We only made it a part of the way through the meal when we realized the kids had to go home and get in bed, so I took the kids and left Jim to deal with the check.

Anyway, we have internet now, I have about 30 francs in my pocket and I've got to figure out how I'm going to feed the kids today, so I'm off. I'll try to post some pictures of the apartment and our street later. If we can get rid of this jet lag thing going on....