Zurich

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Tommy, Tess, and Carin (the real professors on the trip)...
Mercedes taxis line up on the Bahnhofstrasse, the major...
We skipped Prada and Hermes, however, and went to the...
The wall of cuckoo clocks at the toy store. Note the...
Lego town in the toy store!
Giant ball-mover toy, multiple floors tall (see the...
I wanted to buy this, the concrete-mixer Lego truck. It...
This was not an uncommon sight: a row of cars, starting...
Meredith, Maggie, Catherine, and Stephanie. Unlike...
Grossmunster ("great minister"), one of two large...
Looking across the Limmat from the church plaza.
My room at the Hotel Walhalla. This was my favorite...
I did not, however, like the creepy cherub-with-lyre on the wall.
Calvin and Hobbes in German!
Hotel Walhalla! For some reason, this hotel reminded me...
The Swiss National Museum, as viewed from my hotel...
Zurich had probably the funniest pictograms, such as...
On the left: Do Not Turn Out One's Pockets. On the...
And finally, the only one that truly made sense: No...
The crazy flying lady-angel in the Zurich train station.
Catherine and Stephanie hanging out by the river.
While I am confident the water was cold, the color made...
Very pretty bridge and water.
An awesome example of vortex shedding in the river. The...
A very pretty Georg Jensen necklace ($1500, or $1300 if...
The Limmat again. The vortex shedding picture was taken...
The Stauffacher-Brucke, or Stauffacher Bridge. This was...
The river below is the Sihl. While the Limmat flows out...
Stauffacher-Brucke!
A view from down near the river (Maggie and Braxton in...
Lamborghini, anyone? As Maggie was admiring it (a bit...
Apparently it is uncommon to be able to see the...
Ah, sailing.
Looking back towards the city from our ferry boat. The...
More mountains.
I would like a boat like this. Also, good wind like...
The Lindt Chocolate Factory! Had I known earlier that...
Optimists! There was something comforting about...
Looking bizarre with my collar buttoned up, yes.
Stephanie, Maggie, and Catherine on the ferry.
Delicious Swiss strawberries. Zurich was ridiculously...
There was a playground between a restaurant we went to...
Spinning! Somehow, I did not get a picture of the...
In the airport. Luggage carts allowed on escalators! ...