Saturday I took Leif and Hanna to visit a castle and museum north of Zürich. We are now quite adept at navigating the train and bus transport system so we walked to the small station near our apartment, bought a ticket from the machine and took an S-Bahn train north to Winterthur where we got on a bus to the town of Kyburg. Leif enjoyed seeing the farm fields and small villages from the bus ride. The town was small with just a few homes and 2 restaurants near the castle, which was perched high on a hill overlooking the river valley. Inside the castle, we got to see what life would have been like living in a castle during the 1400s. It was built sometime in the 12-13th centuries and later was used by the city of Zürich to house some of their main officials. Despite the warm day outside, the castle was cold and damp, making us realize how cold it must have been to live there. The prison in the tower did not look like a place you would want to be either!
Elisabet and Travis stayed in Zürich and went to the vet school for an emergency radiograph consultation. Elisabet wasn't sure how Travis had helped the "flugkatze" (flying cat, i.e. fell/jumped from an apartment window) because as she told us later, "daddy didn't touch the cat". He explained to her that it was his job to look at pictures of the cat, not directly touch the animals. She's still not convinced. They looked at the horses in the barns and found a couple miniature horses that were shorter than Elisabet. She thought that was pretty interesting.
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