Awake 7:45 am High clouds
After coffee, Kathy & I walk to the local bank & exchange some greenbacks
for Swiss Francs, then stop @ the post office for stamps.
Early afternoon, Myrta, Rene, Kathy & I drive over the the Stoll farm to
pick up some of the empty food pans & dishes belonging to individuals from
last night's party.
Then we drive into Zurich(45 min) & pick up Rene's sister Doris, who is
visiting their Mother for the week. Doris is currently living in Germany.
From here, we drive Northeast of Zurich to tour the Zoo & the newly opened
Jungle building. This huge tropical Jungle building we walk through has
temperature & humidity control. It's like a a thick dense forest..
difficult to see any wildlife unless we stop & study carefully a
particular area, then we begin to see birds, animals, small creatures
roaming around all in their natural habitat. It's a very impressive
structure, well planned with wildlife & natural plantlife.
We leave the Jungle bldg & walk up the hill further to the Zoo. Spend
several hrs walking around looking at the various animal & bird
sanctuaries. Probably the most impressive thing to see was the Tiger's
den. They had an expansive area to roam around, complete with a flowing
stream & pond, large rocks, many trees, several caves, etc. We watched
behind a plate glass as a tiger chewed on a large meaty bone while he was
sitting on a rock out in this pond...all very close. Then the meaty bone
dropped into the water. Instead of simply going under the water to grab it
with it's teeth, he used his paw & dragged it to shallow water, then
grabbed it with his teeth..thus avoiding having his head under the
water...interesting!
Back to Zurich & drop Doris off at her Mother's place...then drive to the
town of Effretikon(15 min) to drop off a food pan that Mario & Claudia had
brought to Saturday's party. We met these people 3 yrs ago when they had
many cousins visiting at their place at the same time & it was difficult
to know " what's happening?" ... they were all speaking Italian.
We are invited to hang around & have a little white wine with snacks while
Claudia makes us a real Italian pizza. This is a fun Italian family to
spend time with. Soon their 2 daughters arrive home from work & school so
now the young people enhance the mood. Then the pizza(really great) & red
wine...Wow! We just dropped by to return a pan...5 hrs ago!! We exchange
e-mail & home addresses with them...& drive back to Andelfingen.
On the way back to the apartment, we drive by Myrta's friend Heidi's place
to return her jacket that was left in the barn on Saturday. It's after
midnight now so Myrta just takes a jacket from the back seat & rushes it
to Heidi's porch & away we go. When we get back to the Andelfingen
apartment & I ask for my jacket, it's gone...Heidi's jacket is still in
the car. So Rene & I leave the girls at Andelfingen to start doing some
laundry & we drive back to Heidi's place to exchange jackets again. Oh
what a night...
Lights out: 1:20 am
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