LGG and ZDG take two day trips

ZMG was right when she warned that our posts would be out of order for a while. I'm just back from a trip, but before I post about that, I wanted to write another couple of posts about the time LGG and I shared while ZMG was in Italy.

LGG and I enjoyed a series of day trips during ZMG's holiday. We first went to Technorama, a great hands-on museum in Winterthur, about 40 minutes from our house. LGG loved playing with the exhibits, with three in particular her favorites: one with with various wooden sculptures designed to act as ramps for small red balls, sometimes making music along the way; one outside where you can adjust the water flow through a hose and make it jump crazily; and especially one with a computer system hooked up to an overhead projector. For that one, you can make shadows with your hands or other items, and the system finds enclosed shapes, draws the shapes, and they drop to the bottom of the screen with various sounds. We stayed there for nearly an hour, until the museum closed and we had to leave. Sorry, no pics on this trip.

The next day, we went to Rapperswil to the KinderZoo again. LGG especially liked that, because she got to be the Big Girl Showing Daddy Around. She took me to see the giraffes


and watch the sea lion show and ride an elephant. She also wanted to ride a pony:


and show off how high she can climb up the structure:


(she's about 10 meters up in that picture) and her zip line skills:


More to come in the next post...