Salimarkles In Switzerland

So somedays you get up and you just feel like it's time for an adventure. Today we got up today and decided to go to Lucerne (Luzern if we're speaking Swiss!). It was a bit of a spontaneous decision and a split decision. Kara said let's go. David said it's supposed to rain all day. David eventually came around. We stopped to get coffee at a cafe in SBB after getting our half price train cards! These are a great deal if you are going to be doing a lot of traveling via train. It's 185 CHF for the first year, 165 CHF thereafter but you get train tickets in Switzerland at half price so it can pay for itself fairly quickly. Kids under 6 ride free on the train! The coffee at SBB was delicious. We got it at Cafe Spettacolo in case you're stopping by. They have the equivalent of Mocha! And schoggi gipfel (chocolate croissants). I can attest both were very chocolatey. :) We were traveling there during Zavi's nap time. He was fussy but luckily it was fairly ...

We took the 1 hour train from Basel SBB to Zurich HB last weekend to meet up with a friend of David's. She is also here on assignment with her husband and family of 3 boys (God bless her - I already thought moving 2 was the limit but she managed it with 3 little ones and at around the same age we did with ours). Kids on a train! So we met up at Zurich HB, which is the main train station since they live a few train stops away. We stopped in the MigroLino to get some snacks on our way. Migros is one of the main shopping stores in Switzerland (along with Coop) and you know how big it is by how many "M"s are shown outside. MMM is the biggest, MM less so, and so forth and so on. This is the smallest but totally great for snacks - we got some sandwiches, chips, and sodas. Admittedly a pic from a different day/park but they have these swings at all the parks here and the kids love them. We then walked down the central street where the river/canal is (BahnhofQuai). Ther...