Woke up early… blah blah blah. ๐ The only thing of note in the morning is that G and I are reading a book together about dinosaurs and a comment in the book mentions that the triceratops has more horns than a rhinocerous. So, G calls it a dinocerous. A bit clever usage of word-morphing. Or maybe I’m biased.
G is exhausted by the trip by this point and is manically scootering around the apartment, bumping into things and doing his best to be as loud as he can. It’s time for an adventure. So, off we go to the train station without a clue as to where we are going, which is how adventures should begin. N,E and I had been eyeing up Winterthur to have a look at and to take some photos, so I decided that that would be our destination. I remember seeing that there was a science museum there or something that was kid-friendly.
At the train station convenience store we get a nutritious lunch that consists of meat sticks, pizza crackers, and most importantly a supply of chocolate. Not just any chocolate, but chocolate with real banana pulp in the middle! The acquisition of lunchtime food, however, made us miss a train and we had to wait in the cold with our only consolation being the food we could now munch. The food wasn’t worth the wait. The Swiss may do many things well, but crisp-like snacks are not one of them.
Finally, G and I make it to Winterthur! We walk briskly away from the train station and study maps that I hoped would give me some idea of where this science museum. I soon realised that this was a fruitless exercise and we wouldn’t be going to the museum. I informed G, who took it in stride. We busied ourselves by walking toward the church you could see that was near the station. Saint Peter’s Church as it turns out and quite an average-looking church as well. At least it was something to take pictures of. Which is more than I can say for the rest of Winterthur that was in walking distance of the station. The one highlight was the playground that we found on the way back from our little jaunt. It had some interesting riding toys, including a duck and frog. That day he was pretending to be one of my superheroes from the days we used to play City of Heroes online. So he said “I’m Galvanic. On a duck!” Which I thought was funny at the time.
On the way back, we got off at the wrong stop and then got off at the wrong stop again. So, we were a bit late getting back to Base Bassersdorf. But nobody noticed anything had gone wrong.
While tea was cooking, N,E and I were convinced to go back into town to see the impressive Christmas decorations that had put up at the big department store in Zurich, Globus. It was cold outside! I kept my hands in my pockets; out of winter‘s way. Except when I took some pictures, of course. The xmas decor was as good as promised and we almost bought a while range of homewares from the store, but ended up getting very little. They did have a version of E’s coffee machine that had flip switches instead of pushbuttons. I really liked that quite a bit.
On our way back from Zurich, we wanted to get a nice cake for dessert and to thank our hosts for their hospitality. So we had a look for cakes in the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, but they were not in the casual cake price bracket. Maybe something for a wedding or a wake or to serve the Queen. We did eventually find a nice Black Forest chocolate cake and brought it home. Turns out to be EH’s favourite kind of cake. So it was a happy ending after all!
After tea and cake, we all played RoboRally, which I hadn’t done in years and years and years. So many years that I didn’t remember the rules. N,E came out blazing in the game, though, shoving robots into pits and blasting them with her laser. She’d nearly destroyed everyone within the first few opening turns. I would have won the game, if I’d kept my mouth shut about it. Instead, EH juryrigged a turn based on knowing I would win and prevented me! And then we all stayed up an extra two hours before N,E and I just decided to quit and go to bed. The moral of the story is to not boast of your winning before you actually win!