Spent the afternoon and evening wondering around Zurich. Zurich really is a beautiful place to visit. The architecture here is just wonderful. Europe in general has some amazing architecture. The cobblestone streets that cover Zurich make it a cool place just to daydream and gaze into all of the shop windows. They go all out here to decorate the windows. Lots of pizzazz! We found a big music store that had some instruments in the display. I thought about Sue and her years of music teaching.
The evening was chilly…not cold though. Temperatures were around 40 degrees. A perfect sunset behind the hills to the west. You could see the silhouette of the church steeples and buildings. See the photograph below. Peaceful. A perfect evening all the way around.
We had a hard time finding a restaurant though. A lot of places are closed on Sunday (most places for that matter). So we found a nice little restaurant near the Limmat River (this is the body of water you see in a lot of the photographs). Anyway, so we went inside and it was a bit nicer than what we wanted or expected. Nevertheless, we were here now…and we were quite hungry. So we decided just to stay.
A nice well dressed gentleman met us at the door, so I nodded and said "good evening …we would like a table for two." He said, OK. He walked around a bit and then came back and asked me something. Well, my ear was full of water from taking a shower earlier in the afternoon. Somehow I managed to get the water a bit further into my ear than normal. So everything sounded sort of muffled. So I looked at him and said "just for two please." He said, again, "no no how long for the table would you like." I looked at Joey and shrugged my shoulders and looked back at the gentleman. I said "just long enough for two people will be fine." I kept thinking to myself "why would it matter how long the table was?" So he sighed and ruffled his brow a bit. He said in a slightly louder voice and harsher tone "no no how LONNGGGG will you be staying with us to eat tonight." I said OHHHHH well just long enough to eat. lol He said "so maybe two hours?" "Maybe one hour?" I said "no no one hour will be the longest we will stay."
So needless to say that at times things are lost in translation. I am sure he thought "stupid Americans." lol
Here are some photos I took this evening – Zurich, Switzerland
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Joey on the steps of one of the streets in Zurich – there are so many little streets here.
One could become easily lost if it were for all the large church steeples to help guide
your way back and forth.
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Lammat River in the background…
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Moon rising between two church towers
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The moon over Zurich this evening
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A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET!!!!
Larger photo here – my favorite photo of the evening
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Toy Store with antique trains and wind up toys
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We found a nice music store, which made me think about Sue Henry back in Paducah.
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So David said that all of the mannaquins looked distressed in Zurich. Joey and I have decided the same. Some of them look like they need to be redressed as well. I don’t get some of these outfits! Perhaps my sisters will appreciate them a bit more than I did.
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The is the ugliest dress I have ever seen (sorry if anyone reading this
actually owns that dress). lol
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Again – YEEEESH 🙂