Hogwarts in Zurich?

Today was a much better morning haha no lock issues! I haven't mentioned it but our room in this hostel is like five stories high and when you climb the stairs you get a work out haha. It's so different from our beautiful Berlin hostel since this one isn't as historical looking, but this one is cool cause we talk to so many people and get a free drink after ten and free breakfast! In this city that is perfect because we can't afford to eat it seems! A Starbucks is like 6 chf..think about how much dinner or lunch would be! We're eating yogurt, cheese and salami, and peanut butter banana nutella sandwiches haha. Also I grabbed mineral water by mistake! I want regular water, no bubbles! I need to pay attention better. It was our last full day in Zurich and as we predicted we woke up to rain, no lake side bathing :( but we decided to go to the history museum, yes! The Landesmuseum Zurich, or the Swiss National Museum Zurich, had valuable collection pieces alongside the historical information. How cool is it to actually see the German vernacular bible you read about? The best! On top of this we arrived to a castle. Yes the museum was huge and very much like Hogwarts... It was a dream!!! Pretty much made for me :) As soon as we got past early history and got to Humanism and I saw a giant painting of Erasmus I started getting so excited! Ask Ashley haha i wanted to point out everything to her. But i'll try not to bore you with too much of what we discovered.. I could go on forever <3. Some of the things didn't have english translations but with the French and my history knowledge I pieced things together. It was so great to see objects as I mentioned before. Such as Zwingli's armor he died in? Yeah pretty cool. For those of you who don't know Huldrych Zwingli led a Protestant movement in Zurich. Side note: you see streets like Zwingliplatz or Lutherstrasse in Zurich.. It's so great! Haha anyway the museum was awesome too because while you learned about general history, such as the enlightenment (don't forget Voltaire hid out in Geneva!) there is of course a Swiss emphasis and during general European History there is never enough time to cover Switzerland! Only the relevant information or contributions get mentioned, for instance Rousseau was from Geneva! I think some of the most interesting sections were the world wars and exhibits on things like Swiss banking and then cultural exhibits I learned a lot when I could make it out! After we spent forever there (and didn't even go through it all I think) we came back to our hostel for lunch and then set out for Zwingli's church, Grossmunster, and the old town part of Zurich. It was so lovely! We visited the church and I think it was actually a Roman Catholic Church that was transformed! Like these two dome-like tier things looked different than the rest of the building and it looked similar to a gothic cathedral. Dang my lack of German! Haha we will have to figure out it's history at some point. Anyways we strolled through old town an took pictures. Then we decides to go check out this Roman fortress that took forever to find oddly enough. We saw the hill finally and I said "the Roman fortress would be this way" haha dang cobblestone hills! But the fortress had been turned into a park with giant chess games and everything! Pretty neat! You could tell it was a Roman fortress still though, so old! Anyway we went back to the main center of Zurich and we had seen this boat that is small and goes under the bridges! We went on it and before we saw a beautiful carousel! But the horses didn't move up and down! Also we sat down by the edge of the river and took some awesome photos of the swans. I'm going to miss seeing swans in the beautiful river and lake! Our day was pretty much over and we went back to the hostel to relax and eat. Packing up for Luzern (Lucerne) tonight! Taking the train in the morning, hopefully the weather is nicer! It's going to be beautiful either way I'm sure. Guten nacht!