A: OK. Let's do it up!
L: Yeah!
A: That was awful. Let's try to only say things we want on the blog - nothing extraneous.L: Is Marco also blogging?
M: I don't blog.
L: What about Ian?
I: (no comment)
A: Well, the first thing we'll say is the weather was shite today.
L: That's scheisse, actually.
A: Someone's been taking German lessons! Our first stop today was the Grossmunster. This is a giant-big church very near Laura and Ian's apt. OK, give me something pithy on the Grossmunster.
L: (Reading) "This cathedral is affectionately known to English speakers as the 'Gross Monster'"... that's funny. Felix and Regula, Christian martyrs, carried their own severed heads to the site where the munster is now and Charlegmange's horse years later collapsed on the same spot and that's how they chose the site.
A: Fascinating. For the low price of 2 CHF each, we climbed to the top and did another panorama moment (click on picture to embiggen.)
L: If you look across the street, at the green steeple, that's our next destination.
A: That's good, Laura. Nice segue.
L: The green steeple is the Fraumunster. It's also a big church. The most notable features of this church are the stained glass windows. In the 1970's the church commissioned Marc Chagall to make these. Adie took a picture of them when she wasn't allowed, thereby desecrating them.
A: I prefer the term "Kinnear".
A: This is the back of the same church. Check the organ - 500 pipes!
L: If the churches look a bit spartan, they are: during the reformation the church took everything beautiful out of them so people could focus more on God.
A: Here's some mountain weather...
L: ... and God's wrath...
A: ...for removing all the art from the churches.
A: Next we went down the Bahnhof-Strasse.
L: This is allegedly the most expensive shopping street in the world, but they also have a Clair's and an H&M so I'm not sure if that's true.
A: There were a lot of designer stores: Hermes, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Cartier, Tiffany...
L: Also Clair's.
A: Marco was having an Energy Crisis so we bought him a pretzel.
M: Always funny when it's someone else.
L: It's called a "Bretzel." Did you know that all nouns are capitalized in German? It's like living in the land in Eeyore.
A: After being re-energized, we headed to the Swiss Landesmuseum. What is it?
L: The weirdest place on earth. It's also the Swiss National Museum.
A: This placed also required a bit of Kinnearing.L: We also desecrated this mammoth. The ladder in the corner is NOT for climbing up to pet the mammoth.
L: Note also: mammoth not real.M: (re-living disappointment)
A: This was nifty - a very, very dark exhibit showcasing old gold jewellery from Roman times.
A: OK - this was totally effed up.
L: It's a room of "pod" speakers, each broadcasting a different, individual child's voice as he or she sang a song or recited a rhyme. So, instead of a room of happy children, there were just pods.
A: We don't get it. It was 1984 creepy.
A: Here we are back at the apartment with The Man, Mr. Banana, getting himself a brush.
L: Look at how skinny he is.
A: He's lost weight but he's still festively plump.
L: The starvation diet really worked.
A: I think he still has a way to go... but it's hard not to love all that cat blubber. Moving on... I really like this.
L: Public law and order is taken very seriously in Zurich. There are signs on the trams that tell you what you are not allowed to do.
A: Remember the signs from Roma the Third? This one's funnier.
A: Good thing Marco left his saw at home.
M: What are you are blogging about?
L: The sign actually means don't break public property or vandalize things... or maybe not, I don't know, my German's not that good. That's why they have the pictures, yo.
A: True dat. Although the saw is confusing. A better illustration of "no vandalism" might have been a spray can or similar.
I: Chicken down (dropped chicken on floor).
A: You're like Julia Child!
L: Then we decided to call home.
A: Fun but also an exercise in tech-support. Let's just say Ray had a few issues with Skype. But we did get this fun picture of him and got to say hello to Faye so it was worth it!
---PAUSE FOR DINNER---
A: Ian, that chicken was delightful.
I: Don't thank me, thank Donna Hay.
--- PLAYING SETTLERS OF CATAN---
A: I hate this game.
L: Because you lose, biatch.
A: AH! What was that?All: run to window.
I: I think the scaffolding outside fell down due to all the rain.
---DISCUSSIONS WITH NEIGHBOUR ABOUT FALLEN SCAFFOLDING IN ALLEY---
---GAME OVER, IAN WINS (MR. BANANA A CLOSE SECOND)---
2 comments:
Fantastic blog format choice - the dia-blog! *Get it? It's like dialogue. HA! Well...it made ME laugh and that's all that matters!*
Highly hilarious! Especially love the tram sign (saw as the warning object of choice makes it SO much funnier) and the picture of Ray. Sometimes no words are needed ;)
Can't wait to see tomorrow's post!
Emma
Ian, you may have won last Settlers of Catain(sp?) but I can tell by Mr. Bananas' smug look at the end that he is closing in on you. --He's got you figured out pal and prepare to meet thy DOOM! !I think the screen capture of my obvious rapture at seeing you heathens all to-gether is a good one--albeit not my normal REGAL and CONTROLLED self. Just happy that L&I and A&M have not yet been rounded up by the ever efficient Swiss and trotted off to the nearest outbound plane. Totally agree about ludicrous sign deterring vandalism. I wonder what Brain Trust came up with that one. (Obvious Switzian Committee decision.)What turnip would decide to vandalise transit property by toting a trusty wood saw for said purpose. Must have missed the class in creative vadalismo 101.
Love the Duo Blogs. NOW THAT'S CREATIVE. lOVE Dad XXOO.
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