major apologies...

it's true, i have been seriously neglecting this poor blog! after our fabulous thanksgiving thursday we had an eventful weekend. on friday night we took it easy [not sleeping can be rough] and on saturday jen and chris went shopping in st. gallen while i hunkered down and prepared for the next steps to enter the real world.. when they got back we went to the gais christmas markt which was absolutely amazing! i got most of my gifts there, which i think is really awesome and special because it was literally outside my window and they're the crafts of the people in the town we live in! that night we went to st. gallen to see our swiss fruendies before our little trip on sunday.. sunday we went to luzern. it was super adorable! the first thing we did was to go check out the rosengart collection...

matisse

after we had our minds blown by the amazing works of picasso, matisse, miró, and monet we took a stroll around the city. there was an awesome bridge [the chapel bridge] that burnt down in the early 1990s and they spent a bunch of money restoring it, but it wasn't 100% completed so some of the wood is still charred black. its amazing how well it was restored! [check out my facebook album to see all the pics!]

 after our stroll through the bridge we went to a very tasty brewery for dinner and got greattttt food! after our great food/dessert/fresh brewed beer we stumbled on a crazy parade that was going on that evening. there were groups of people with these whips that made some crazy cracking noises in the air, then large groups of men with giant bells came through the street and finally two santa clauses! [videos on the book!]

this week has been pretty crazy as well! while jen and i are preparing for our london adventure i am taking my real world steps! last night i got my domain name and hosting set up so that next week i can launch ashleyreinstein.com! a woot a wooooot!