Grandma's Day 1 Observations

Last night Zürich Daddy Geek's mom arrived.  Little Geek Girl calls her Nai-Nai, which is Chinese for "father's mother".  ZDG used his frequent flyer miles to buy Nai-Nai first class tickets from San Francisco to Munich and then Zürich.  Nai-Nai enjoyed being treated like royalty and arrived at the Zürich Airport while it was raining. 

We got her home and she stayed awake long enough to read LGG a couple of bedtime books. We had zopf and nutella for breakfast, in belated honor of World Nutella Day.  After freshening up, we took the bus up the hill to show Nai-Nai where ZDG's office used to be, and then headed to Zürich city proper.  We walked along the narrow path along the west side of the Limmat River.  Did I mention it was snowing?  LGG was getting cold and hungry so we went to Zeughauskeller for lunch, where we introduced Nai-Nai to the Zürich specialty of Zürcher Kalbsgeschnetzeltes mit Rösti.  We walked to Burkliplatz and tried to feed the ducks but there were a lot seagulls around.  We wanted to walk further along the Zürichsee, but it was getting cold, so we decided to head home (after stopping at Sprüngli for some Luxemburgerli).

So, when we got home, we asked Nai-Nai her first impressions of Zürich.

1. The part of Zürich that we live in reminds her of Portland, Oregon.

2. It's very clean.

3. She thought the sheds in the community gardens looked kind of like a shantytown.

Stay tuned for more observations from Nai-Nai.