Rainy, stormy morning - nice!

Wow, what a nice morning we had.  We all took it nice and easy, having breakfast and then just hanging around a little bit.  And while we hung around, we saw lightning and then heard some good thunder.  The plan this morning had been to "walk a dog", which Martina and Andrew do on some Saturdays for the animal shelter.  But since it started raining, they decided to abandon that plan and we all just did things around the apartment.  The weather was lovely - cold, rainy and then of course the lightning and thunder.  Just made us so glad we were inside nice and warm.

But by about lunch time, we figured we may as well go out and look into either train tickets to Spain or a rental car.  How nice it was to be able to get into their nice new car to go to the airport to do this.  It wasn't raining when we got to the airport, but when we got out, it was pouring.  We drove to downtown Basel, felt lucky because we found a good parking spot along the street and headed to a soup restaurant.  The hot soup was perfect for the day, which we enjoyed with bread and fruit.

After our lunch, we walked around in a nice store downtown called Globus.

Martina left to put our purchases in the car and she didn't come back and she didn't come back and we were wondering what was going on.  When Andrew took out his phone to call her, he saw that SHE had called and it turns out that there was a ticket on the car so she had quickly moved it from that spot and was trying to get into a parking garage.  So, we walked to the parking garage to meet her there.  What a pain.  Didn't have the car even 24 hours and already a parking ticket!!

After dealing with that unpleasant news, we walked to a Natural History museum where we spent several hours enjoying the displays.  From there Martina and Andrew showed us the store where they get their small supply of Mexican food items and then we walked back to the parking garage to get the car.

We stopped to admire the ivy at this building.

And an apartment building covered in ivy.

Walking back to the car

And on our way back, we came across a band playing good music in the street.

The tram in Basel

For dinner this evening, Andrew made chicken fajitas, picadillo, guacamole, and homemade tortillas.  It was absolutely delicious and really amazing to get such good Mexican food here in Switzerland.

Andrew rolling the tortillas

Martina cooking the tortillas

Another good ending to a really nice day.