Bonnie's Birthday

Today is my birthday and I wasn't quit sure what to expect....but so far...it is turning out to be a pretty wonderful day! Last night one of my lovely girls made me this wonderful GIANT birthday card on the sidewalk with chalk. She was so excited about it she showed me last night. It was a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign.





After breakfast where another girl and her visiting parents sang "Happy Birthday" to me, then Les and Elva gave me a lovely bouquet of flowers. Then we had a dorm staff meeting and I baked some cookies for the girl's lunch snack. After quickly washing dishes I met my wonderful friend, Carrie Beth where I had lunch with her and she also gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Then after she dropped me off from lunch, a nice German man brought me yet another bouquet of flowers from my wonderful parents.

Never had I had some may lovely flowers. Above are my 3 lovely bouquets of flowers. Below is me with the flowers from my parents. I am sure the rest of my day will continue to be wonderful.

Roman Ruins!

On Wednesday October 8, 2008 the Palmgarten dorm staff went to visit the Augusta Raurica Roman ruins. They are just 10 minutes outside of Basel, Switzerland.

August, Switzerland is where the Romans claimed this land for themselves. They built the entire town...Roman style. So there is an amphitheater. Here you will see myself, Elva Porter (dorm Mom), Lizzy Schulz (RA), Ellie Wiebe (RA).


This is the amphitheater now...and what is looked like originally.


Elva and I are enjoying are quaint view of the amphitheater. We are such bad kids to be climbing in the windows! Opps!


This is Les Porter the dorm Dad. As you can see, you don't want to mess with him. And yes, if any guys at BFA want to take one of the Palm girls out they have to ask Papa Les for permission. So, needless to say there are a few intimidated guys at the school!


The Romans loved their games and we loved it as well!


Would you want these people to take care of your children?

All in all we had a lovely time enjoying the past. We ended the adventure at the Fumph Shilling, a nice German restaurant. The pumpkin soup was wonderful! Germany is pretty amazing in the fall!

Lost in Zurich

On Wednesday I was asked to help drive some juniors to a college fair in Zurich, Switzerland. It was about an hour away. I was told I would have no responsibilies and I would be able to wander around downtown Zurich. This sounded wonderful, especially since my good friend CB was also going to be driving.

Only 2 vans were needed, not three, so I decided I would ride along with CB as Luke, the guidance counselor lead the way with his GPS. We found the hotel Marriott that the college fair was at and let the kids off. Then we were going to park in the parking garadge. Down we went, but the parking attendent would not let us park due to the size of our vans...so after a 16 point turn in not very much space we left the parking gardge with Luke and his GPS in the lead to find a place to park.

Soon we had to turn around again, but we were seperated from Luke. So without GPS or a map, CB and I tried hard to find a place to park. Soon we were lost in Zurich...for an hour an a half and were in a GETTO part of town then we got to the highway. I could have followed the signs home...but we didn't have the students so we needed to find the hotel again. So I started to PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And suddenly we saw signs for downtown Zurich....and we followed them...and after a few turns...God brought us to the Marriott! Praise the LORD! I asked the parking attendent where we could park our HUGE van (which would be small in American terms) and he said around the building. So there we went and again prayed for a spot...and there one was that was easy to park in. Please notice the wonderful parall parking job CB did! Pretty Amazing.

The next day CB and another RA, Vangie, were in a school van and got side swiped by a HUGE logging truck and should have died...but lived to tell the story. If you would like to read about this story and see more pics of me then look at my friend, CB Watson's blog at www.cbwatson.blogspot.com to see more details.