Day 2- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Let’s start with the best of times.

Today we took a train and 2 buses(all on our own!) to a fabulous mountain playground called Atzmannig. It was a hot one, but what an incredible day.

It started with Bel, Lil and Mel spending 3 hours on a high ropes and zip lining course.  Some of the obstacles were quite challenging like riding a skateboard hanging over 3o ft in the air rather than a normal zip line, a free fall where you just had to step off the platform and let gravity do its thing(plus a gentle pulley system).  It was an amazing 3 hours.  Matt forgot tennis shoes, otherwise he would have been up in the trees.  Charlie had a great time though climbing big rocks and rumbling beneath us in the forest.

We ate a quick lunch of peanut butter sandwiches then headed over to the other half of the park

Where they had mountain toboggan run which you had to take a chair lift to get to start

They had all sorts of other stuff to do.

See Lily doing flips on a trampoline

Or Mel being launched in a jet boat

Charlie had fun after nap too

It was a great day in the mountains

….And then we got back to Zurich to find the apartment door crow-barred and broken into.

It seems like they were looking for money(which there was none) because they left the ipads, computer,etc.  So nothing stolen.  But a visit from the police and a new door made it a not so pleasant evening.  We decided to eat Burger King for comfort food, stop at the grocery store for bananas and yogurt and hit the hay.  Crazy enough, Matt and I have spent time in a police station before, but that was in Chile.

It’s National Swiss Day tomorrow, parades and fun to be had.  We hope its an only fun day