Days 9 – 10 (July 1 –
2, 2012)
On July 1, we cycled from Constance
to Zurich, Switzerland on a wet day. We ate lunch at
a street festival in a small town along the way, where Sho and Lucas went on a
crazy carnival ride that sent them spinning high in the air. It would have made any normal human sick, and I happily
watched from the ground with Becky and Saya.
We had to
deal with the first flat tire of the ride, which occurred on Sho’s bike – a
piece of glass. I changed the tire
inside a tunnel to escape the rain. We
eventually made our way into Zurich, where we enjoyed a wonderful home cooked
meal at a friend of Becky’s. He told us
that large chunks of hail and heavy rain had pounded Zurich earlier in the
day. We were lucky only to have dealt
with intermittent rain during our ride.
That night, we watched Spain dominate Italy in the Eurocup soccer final,
4-0.
On July 2, Becky and I decided
to give the kids a change of pace and took a train from Zurich to Einsiedeln,
where we stayed with Claudia Kaelin, a childhood friend. Sho, Saya and Lucas spent the late afternoon and
evening playing outside with Claudia's 14-year old son.
Saya collected lettuce and edible flowers from the garden to make the
salad for dinner (see pic). Near the end
of the evening, Sho asked me to play hide and seek with the kids. As we were hiding behind a bale of hay, he
whispered, “I’m having such a great time on this bike trip!”
Here are some pics:
Buying fruit from a farm by the road:
Saya in Constance:
Sho in Constance:
Lucas getting simple carbs during the ride (yes, that's a jar of honey):
Saya collecting edible flowers to add to the dinner salad at Claudia Kaelin's:
Saya with the dinner salad she collected from Claudia's garden:
Eating with Claudia Kaelin in Einsiedeln, Switzerland:
No comments:
Post a Comment