Sontag
On Sundays, most of Zurich is closed. We're talking no supermarkets, no stores, maybe a third of the restaurants are still open. We woke up late this Sunday and picked up some food from the only take away place open near our house, a greek place with decent shawerma but bad chicken wings.
Luckily, the Zoo was still open so we went for about 3 hours. It is a cute little zoo. And for the first time since I went to the Zoo in the 5th grade, it seemed like most of the animals were actually doing something while I was there. The penguins had their feeding time so they were all fighting with each other over position. A penguin fight looks like a fight between two five year olds. They look away and start flapping their wings at each other wildly and then back off. One of their small primate exhibits has no cage around it so the little orange faced monkeys come right up to the tree branch in front of you. They have this great cartoon sign of someone holding their finger next to a monkey with oversized teeth which says in german that the monkey's will bite. The tigers were eating as well. We couldn't tell what it was, but it wasn't a steak, it was some kind of small mammal they threw in their. The otters were the best. Two of them wrestled in front of the glass wall of their room for about 15 minutes, while the other was busy eating a baby chic that the zookeepers threw into the cage. I have some great pictures, which I will post soon.
The zoo is at the top of a hill with a great view of Zurich and some of the surrounding cities. It's also just a tram ride away. The trams by the way, do run perfectly on time just as everyone jokingly indicated to us before we arrived.
That night, we went down to Zeughauskeller a 15th century armory now turned bier hall. They serve the basics of rosti, sausage and meat not yet ground up into sausage. The portions were the largest we've seen since we got to Europe and about on par with an American restaurant. The sausage was good though lexi's cordon bleu was a little bland. They have these great weapons from all throughout Swiss history around the hall: pikes, swords, WWI machine guns and cannons. They even have what they claim to be William Tell's crossbow. It has a great atmosphere and fairly reasonable prices (though Europe has further strained my definition of reasonable).
After that we saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith at the local cinema. It was in English with German subtitles. They didn't have glasses of beer for sale as Pulp Fiction had told me, which was disappointing, but all the ads before the movie were for cigarettes which was different. The theatre was very empty, much like the rest of Zurich that day. I can't tell where everyone goes on Sundays. I mean church should only last a few hours at the most? Sunday will probably be our cooking in day from now on. The only thing that is actually cheaper to buy here in Switzerland is cheese. The cheese section at the local minimart is huge and they are all priced much cheaper than at whole foods. Just as the guidebook Amy bought for us says, "Switzerland is not for the lactose intolerant".
Luckily, the Zoo was still open so we went for about 3 hours. It is a cute little zoo. And for the first time since I went to the Zoo in the 5th grade, it seemed like most of the animals were actually doing something while I was there. The penguins had their feeding time so they were all fighting with each other over position. A penguin fight looks like a fight between two five year olds. They look away and start flapping their wings at each other wildly and then back off. One of their small primate exhibits has no cage around it so the little orange faced monkeys come right up to the tree branch in front of you. They have this great cartoon sign of someone holding their finger next to a monkey with oversized teeth which says in german that the monkey's will bite. The tigers were eating as well. We couldn't tell what it was, but it wasn't a steak, it was some kind of small mammal they threw in their. The otters were the best. Two of them wrestled in front of the glass wall of their room for about 15 minutes, while the other was busy eating a baby chic that the zookeepers threw into the cage. I have some great pictures, which I will post soon.
The zoo is at the top of a hill with a great view of Zurich and some of the surrounding cities. It's also just a tram ride away. The trams by the way, do run perfectly on time just as everyone jokingly indicated to us before we arrived.
That night, we went down to Zeughauskeller a 15th century armory now turned bier hall. They serve the basics of rosti, sausage and meat not yet ground up into sausage. The portions were the largest we've seen since we got to Europe and about on par with an American restaurant. The sausage was good though lexi's cordon bleu was a little bland. They have these great weapons from all throughout Swiss history around the hall: pikes, swords, WWI machine guns and cannons. They even have what they claim to be William Tell's crossbow. It has a great atmosphere and fairly reasonable prices (though Europe has further strained my definition of reasonable).
After that we saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith at the local cinema. It was in English with German subtitles. They didn't have glasses of beer for sale as Pulp Fiction had told me, which was disappointing, but all the ads before the movie were for cigarettes which was different. The theatre was very empty, much like the rest of Zurich that day. I can't tell where everyone goes on Sundays. I mean church should only last a few hours at the most? Sunday will probably be our cooking in day from now on. The only thing that is actually cheaper to buy here in Switzerland is cheese. The cheese section at the local minimart is huge and they are all priced much cheaper than at whole foods. Just as the guidebook Amy bought for us says, "Switzerland is not for the lactose intolerant".
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