Lazy Days

So I haven't updated in the last few days, mostly because I haven't had much to say. The rain has kept me mostly pinned down. Today is beautiful so I will go out for a walk in the sun today. LOL I'm listening to a live radio feed from Portland and as I typed the last, the lyric was "I just wish I had known to go out walking in the sun." Synchronicity right? Anywho before I go let me tell you what I've been up to.
As always I'm collecting addresses for the invites, and yesterday I cut, stamped and hand wrote on 200+ wedding favors! I got a little cooped up yesterday after all that so I wondered around and took some artistic plant pictures.

On Wednesday I went out and purchased my Museum Pass and visited three different museums. The first one I went to was the Oskar Reinhart Museum am Stadtgarten. Oskar Reinhart was an art collector in Winterthur and there are actually two Museums in the city that house his collection. The one I visited was an art museum in his lifetime and usually houses work by German, Austrian and Swiss artist from the 18th - 20th centruries. The other is the Oskar Reinhart Am Romerholz, which is the collector's former home. This one houses a lare collection of Old Masters as well as important French paintins from teh early 19th and 20th centuries, most notable is the colloction of early impressionist. The later museum is closed for renevation and part of that collection is on exhibit in the museum I visited. The works are presented "In Dialouge," you are incouraged to compair and contrast the technique and approach of artist to simular subject matter. It was interesting and educational, and I was able to see some amazing art!
The second museum I visited was the Villa Flora, another art museum, this one is much smaller and in the home of the couple who collected the art usually on display there.  Usually the works on display are French Impressionist.  Catching on to a theme?  Well the exhibit was the first instilation of intirely sculpture! The exhibit compaired two Swiss artists who produced female nudes at about the sametime.  Very informative and interesting.  I didn't get any postcards from there since they didn't have any of the sculptures I really liked. 
The third museum I went to was the Lindengut Museum.  This is local history museum with rotating exhibits that focuses on the daily lives of families in Winterthur, and include a large toy collection.  Well when I arrived the man on duty, who spoke very little english told me that there was no exhibit until five days from now, but if I wanted to wonder around feel free.  So I look around at empty shelves, storage crates and holes in the walls where art must have hung recently.  The building itself was beautiful with painted panels and tiled stoves. 
In the midst of all of that I took myself out to lunch.  I had seen a mexican restaraunt, I know I know, but I really wanted some nachos! LOL  Well I didn't get the nachos when I saw that they were nearly CHF30!! So instead I opted for the daily lunch special, which the english speeking waitress told me was somekind of beef with sause and a rosti. (which you may recall is basically hashbrowns).  For half the price of the nachos the special also came with soup!  So I had my soup, which was egg flower. (ok so I'm in Switzerland, in a mexican restaruant, eating chinees food?!?)  Then I get a wiff of something awful and look around to see my lunch being served to me.  It was liver, so rare some of it was still bleeding, in a garlic wine sauce.  In my whole life I don't think I ever did not eat something of what was served to me at a restaraunt. I ate some of the rosti, but the smell of the whole thing was awful.  I ended up putting it on the table as far from myself as I could.  The waitress returned and asked if there was anything wrong and as I have never done before, I told her that my lunch was not good.  She asked if she could get me anything else and I informed her I had lost my appetite.  So yeah, not so good food adventure!  At least she didn't make me pay for the lunch I didn't eat! 
When I got back that evening and told Jesse about my day he tried to sympathize since it sounded like I had a pretty lousy day, I was out in the rain for hours, I had a bad lunch, went to an empty museum and didn't get to see the French Impressionist art I was so looking forward to.  I was shocked, I thought I had a great time!  It's true your attitude is everything. 
I have been enjoying everyone's comment on facebook I'm not feeling too homesick.  Today I'm going to look into going on an overnight trip to Luzern this weekend, so I'm doing some internet research and then I'm walking to the tourist info office at the train station.  But right now it's past my lunch time so I should run. 

Oh before I do I should update you about cooking on the hot plate.  Not easy, messy, and so far I've only cooked pasta.  I think I will stick to pasta unless someone has any bright ideas! and here is a pic of our no cook breakfasts (the things that look like limes are eggs, we bought them already boiled and colored)