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Off we go! Wish us luck.
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After 100 minutes they let us deplane if we felt we needed it. I felt it was only fair to our section to let the toddler run it off outside. They rolled out the treat carts too, and I'm now laughing because I'd been looking for these in the airport since
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We are traveling to/in Zürich with another couple with a baby & I didn't think about this in advance but it's really reduced the stressfulness of travel hiccups. This picture: transferring in the longest Schengen immigration line I could recall after a f
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Arrived, now we sleep. Maybe for only "naptime" but sleeeep
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Lunch at the kiosk/biergarten near Im Viadukt's playground. She only has eyes for the swings.
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The Whoppers in Zürich are ANGRY!
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Dinner in the ol' beer hall, Zeughaus Keller. I ordered the Kalbsgeschnetzeltes näch Zürcher Art. (Veal, Züri-style.) William Tell's bow was displayed on the side wall, supposedly.
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Inside a wood-paneled room, looking out a door towards the Gessner exhibit at the Landesmuseum. Gessner was a Reformation-era polymath, with extensive contributions to botany, zoology, medicine & various humanities.
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The national museum opens with a large exhibit on Swiss migration history, covering major causes (poverty, war, economic opportunity). It mentions the ugly side--failure by Swiss to recognize Jewish people as refugees from Germany in the 1930s & 40s & the
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Dolce & Gabanna. Vintage-poster dresses in the window. $5,500. 😂😂😂
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Daytripping at Luzern's Swiss Museum of Transport. Steam trains, Swissair planes, gondolas, cogwheel trains, telecabines, boats, giant tunnel machinery. Showing off Swiss prowess, really.
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Revisited the Sri Lankan place I found last year called Friends Corner. Except this year I couldn't remember what I ordered before so we just pointed at 2 different German menu descriptions of Sri Lankan dishes & it worked out. This is pittu cottu (lamb)
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I mean, I agree but I still 😂😂😂. (Posted at the children's park & picnicking area by our apartment.)
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Moments before we broke into baby's first tarte au citron & tarte aux fraises. The tarte au 🍋: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Too picture-perfect to pass up.
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Swiss Milk Tram. Cow on a bike, with cows in those bike trailers! #dairypride
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I told her it was my birthday earlier this morning, and when we visited one of Zürichsee's beach parks, she made me "a cake with candles" and sang happy birthday.
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Surprise! It turns out, today is Ascension Day, a Swiss national holiday, so @tibadoh had the day off. We went with another visiting Seattle teammate, and his wife and baby to Luzern & Mt. Pilatus today since the stations were reporting excellent weathe
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On the train from Zurich to Luzern
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Heading up to Pilatus
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Heading above Luzern
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Above Luzern
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Amongst other sundries, they sell pregnancy tests in vending machines in Switzerland.
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Pilatus Landscape
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At the top of Pilatus
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Taking it in
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Telecabine to Pilatus
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Not too shabby.
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On the bridge in Luzern
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Lucerne
