Aubrie's very good friend from Hamburg Melina, and her brother Leander and mother Viola visited us again this year. Unfortunately our family got the flu the day before they were due to arrive so they didn't end up staying at our house with us. We waited 3 days after our symptoms were gone before getting together to avoid passing the germs. Over the next week we enjoyed going on a boat ride along the Limmat river and a bit into Zurich lake, then we checked out Rheinfalls with them and took a boat to the middle island in the falls and lastly we checked out the Knie Zoo in Rapperswil and got to ride on an elephant. Lots of fun. The big downer though is even though we tried hard not to spread our germs Viola's family came down with the flu on the day that they were to take their 12 hour train ride back to Hamburg. It became the trip of hell running to the public restroom every 15 minutes and praying for it to end. I felt so bad for them.
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| feeding the elephants |
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| Are these not the biggest Porcupines you have ever seen?!? |
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| Aaaahhhh! |
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| Riding on the elephant. |
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| Here you see the elephant trainers, they were jabbing at the elephants the whole time to keep them moving. I felt horrible having contributed to the terribleness of these elephants lives. It took the fun and excitement of having rode and elephant right out of it. |
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