On Lia's last day here (boooo), and with Chris home from his trip, but fighting jet-lag, we decided to spend a Sunday visiting a favorite hangout of the locals. On Sundays in Switzerland, everything is closed except for some restaurants. The Swiss are known for doing three things on Sundays: exercising outside, hanging with their families outside, or eating long, expensive meals at restaurants (and if at all possible-outside). Once you accept Sunday as a day that you won't be able to run any errands, or get much done (vacuuming and laundry is also banned due to noise restrictions), it is really fantastic! It is a guilt free way to ensure that you take time out to enjoy yourself and your family, and there is no more of an enjoyable place to do that than outside-especially when you are in the Alps! We went to Lake Greifensee to check out the small village and the lake. There is a path all around the lake, and hundreds of people were out roller blading, biking, walking, and scootering. It was a beautiful, hazy day. The pics we took look like I've edited the color on them, but I didn't. It was the most romantic light. I felt like I was sitting in a Swiss version of an Emily Dickinson poem (sans some crazy dress and girdle). We enjoyed some beers at a bier garten, and let the boys wade in the lake. We walked around the lake for a while and enjoyed some of the first warm sunshine of the summer season and each other. It felt like a genuine Swiss experience. It felt great!
this was such a beautiful day! it was so hard to leave you and your awesome family! i cried all the way to Zurich HB. that night was so funny with isaac and his pizza hands... i will never forget the look on chris' face when he zoomed him to the bathroom to wash up, hehe.
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