Monthly Archives: March 2007

Reading

Oops! We were supposed to turn left at Feldkirch.

This is the best news story I’ve read in a long time.

Swiss troops march into tiny Liechtenstein by mistake
The Associated Press
ZURICH, Switzerland: What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers from the neutral country wandered 2 kilometers (more than a mile) across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story, but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

“We’ve spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it’s not a problem,” Daniel Reist told The Associated Press on Friday.

Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.

Interior Ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. “It’s not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something,” he said.

Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington, D.C., does not have an army.
from the International Herald Tribune.

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Family matters

Drinking buddies


The buddies lend a hand
Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

Poppy may not like vegetables, but she loves her buddies. Elmo, Ernie, Big Bird, Grover and L’il Bert all share the crib with Poppy. Most mornings, she only brings one or two of them downstairs with her. Yesterday, though, she wanted to bring Elmo, Ernie and Bert. And when I gave her a cup of milk, she wouldn’t put them down. She just opened her mouth as if to say, “Please place the sippy cup into my mouth and follow me around as I go about my business.” Which is exactly what we did, all the way into the living room. Where I laid her down on a pillow. She propped the cup up on the buddies and chilled for a good five minutes. And that’s a long time for a toddler to chill.

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Veggie tales

Poppy will eat spinach, but only if it’s on pizza or inside a ravioli. In those cases, she can hardly get enough of it. As for any other veggie? I can’t get her to try anything else. I tried to give her four itty-bitty edamame pods with her lunch today, and she gagged when one of them touched her lip. What’s a mommy to do?

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