Braided Bread of Bliss

Saturday we went to Zurich! An area where Brett spent about 10 months of his mission (that area and around it). The weather was pretty good that day. It was a little chilly but did not rain. When we got there we went straight to Migros, the local grocery store. There we stocked on the essentials: cream cheese, bread, apple juice, and chocolate. The bread was a that special braided bread we made with Ruth last week: Zopf. We love us some Zopf. We had a lovely picnic on a wet bench in a small park next to a crowded street. We had our very own Swiss lunch. 

Luxemburgerli

Zurich is a very international city. I thought I might have become fluent in German already, but realized that most of the people there were speaking English. After our braided bliss bread we strolled the main street of Zurich. There we found stores like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Rolex, Prada etc. It was a big hoity toity place with guards at the doors of the store. I felt like a simpleton there. It was cool to see all the nice things though. One of the coolest nice things was Sprungli the hoity-toit chocolate store. It was super busy and very fun to experience fancy chocolate, we were able to get a free Luxemburgerli (what they are famous for). It's like a small cute sweet kind of moist hamburger looking thing. with frosting in the middle. Very different than anything I have had before in America. 

We then went to Brett's old mission home where the mission president lived. We had to take a small train/tram up a long steep hill to get to the office.  It was vacant so we were able to take some pictures. Brett told me some old memories about the office and the building. He was excited to go there, I loved hearing about his mission memories. It has been great to see Brett in this element. He is very comfortable here. He is confident in speaking with people and most people think that he is German because he speaks so well. I always feel so proud. He is a great example and I can see the good that he did here on his mission just by the smiles that he puts on others' faces here. 

After the mission home we rented some free bikes and cruised around the Limat, the river of Zurich. We saw some swans and laughed at how big their feet are. I experienced my first Euro port-a-pottie, smelt like an American one. I was stressed for the bike riding because there were so many people but we went on the less crowded roads through the city. It was very peaceful around the lake though, many parks and green grass.  

We returned the bikes and still weren't done with our day in Zurich. Brett took me to a mountain in Ueteliburg  with a very high tower on it. I turned into an old grandma walking up those stairs. It was very windy, I could feel the tower swaying in the wind and we were rather high. Brett asked to take my hand and I declined rather quickly due to not wanting to let go of anything. At the top and slowly walked to the edge took a picture and gladly walked back down. It was very cool to see the whole city from there though. Afterwards, we went to FIFA headquarters! Unfortunately we could not go in but we still took a picture with their sign. It was fun! We then hit up a small Calzone shack from and headed home. We were pooped, but was a very fulfilling day. We decided we need to make the most of everyday that we have, and we definitely made a great day!