First Trip to Lake Zurich

We spent our first full day here taking a quick trip over to Lake Zurich. When I say quick, I mean we hopped on a tram for about 10 minutes and got off at Paradeplatz ,which is the city's banking center, and the home of many fancy schmancy stores at which I do not belong. Think the famous shopping scene in Pretty Women - only where she goes back waving her bags saying 'big mistake - huge', I wave my Kohl's bag and they lock the doors on me because they are so insulted by my ghetto vibe. That's if they had Kohl's here.... the reality is more like me with no bags. Anyway, down the block from there is a main entrance to the lake.



Pretty huh? Yes, it kinda puts Lake Michigan to shame and understandable that it'd be the crowing glory of a worthy shopping district. The kids were looking forward to swimming, but we dragged them on a boat tour instead - luckily realizing there was a 90 min tour instead of the
4 hour one we nearly boarded. Not much to report from that, other than we saw some pretty scenery:

OK, this isn't the scenery I speak of - but this is just a quick side note as to why it's never a wise idea to drape your 1/2 naked caboose over any object in public....you never know who is trying to take pictures of something that doesn't pertain to you and consequentially your
badunkadunk ends up part of someone's family photo album. Anyway, cool contraption isn't it? More welcome views included things such as this:


and this:



Towards the end of the cruise, the wind picked up and it was clear that a storm was on it's way. Considering I failed to bring our umbrellas with us that afternoon,
and considering we had to catch a tram to make it back home you wouldn't think that a snack would be of importance..... but well, when a snack looks like this shelter becomes less important.


These are some fine sausages too, I might add. Very lean, not greasy at all - and note how you just take a big crusty roll to pick apart with each bite...no buns here which I like since I usually get rid of at least half my bread anyway : ) Madison and Maya ended up wearing some mustard in their hair and shoes from eating these in the wind BTW. I'm sure they'd like to make sure that their team efforts are noted.