Feed the Birds

This is a little embarrassing to admit, but we have a cleaning lady. Well, the people we're subletting from do and they want to keep her, so we have her also. Wednesday mornings she comes for a couple of hours to clean. Little Geek Girl does not like the vacuum cleaner (we put her in her room when we vacuum) so we usually go out.

Yesterday we didn't have a plan so we just headed towards the tram. On the way to the tram I noticed that our local bakery was open. Last week they had been closed for the ski holiday and I thought they were closed through this weekend, but fortunately for us I was wrong. We picked up a spinach croissant thing for me, a cat shaped bread for LGG, a green tart thing, and some bread for the house. We then hopped on the tram. Originally our plan had been to ride to the end, but I remembered that rain was forecast for the rest of the week so I decided to get off and walk towards the lake. We stopped to eat our lunch with a nice view of the lake. LGG's kitty was more sweet than savory, but it's so hard to get her to eat when we're out and I wanted her to eat something more filling than crackers. Okay, she'll eat chicken nuggets when we're out, but we don't want to do that more than we have to. Our green tart thing (about 2 inches in diameter) was pleasantly filled with chocolate.

Then we proceeded to feed the birds with the old bread that I had packed. In the States we would buy a loaf of sliced Oroweat bread and it would last a week due to the preservatives. They have sliced "toast" bread here, but it is dry and tastes like cardboard. However, the fresh bakery bread is yummy, but also dries out quickly. If you can't eat it fast enough, then you feed the birds. Last week we went down to the Limmat River and fed the ducks down there. There aren't that many ducks and they're pretty calm. However, the seagulls, pigeons, and swans by the Zurichsee are a whole different flock. Or maybe just the seagulls. The seagulls would come quite close and a couple grabbed bread out of our hands. We saw several people come feed the birds with their bags of dried bread bits. We spent a couple of hours by the lake.

On our way to the tram we visited Globus am Bellevue just to look (gourmet food market, restaurants, and kitchen wares) and the Coop grocery store to pick up more groceries. I almost always have a tote bag with me to carry our hats, mittens/gloves, and scarves, and to hold another tote for groceries. Then home again, home again, jiggety jig.