Scott and I left the boys at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, but were back within an hour of them waking up, so they weren't hurting too bad from the separation.
Our flight changes meant a bonus four hours or so with the boys. I had a great Mario Kart-a-thon with Will. We've decided that if any shows any negative emotion (mostly tears from Will), the other is allowed to hit them in the head with a pillow until they started laughing.
Once Will caught on to the fact that he was the only one getting smacked with a pillow, he decided that if my character displayed any sadness, I deserved a nasty whop in the head.
Fair, I guess. I'm not a very emotional competitor generally.
Charlie and Will watched baseball (America's favorite past time is, in fact, Charlie's favorite past time. Papa Ken must be a happy fella these days). Then the had a nice nap until we had to get rolling.
The next 12 hours or so (seriously not sure) were a blur of flights and public transportation, but we arrived safely at our Zurich hotel around 4:30 p.m. local time, 10:30 a.m. in Wisconsin.
We figured out how to chat with video through gmail and got to see Will's chocolate batter covered face which made my day.
First impressions of Zurich:
-Their shoes are very narrow, or, ours are extremely wide
-A lot of people speak English here
-There's a lot of Italian restaurants
-No one jaywalks ... other than my husband
-It's very charming ... a lot of people sitting outside eating despite the 50-degree temperatures, plus children and dogs wandering around. I told Scott that if we were in the U.S. and I saw children alone after dark I would think their parents must be animals :)
All for now, Scott and I were going to try to stay awake until normal Zurich bedtime but only made it to 8 p.m. or so.
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