It's fun to play "Bear Hunt" in Bern because you can get a point pretty much every minute of the day. Seriously, there are bears everywhere....on flags, in stores, on the buildings, etc. According to Aaron's GPS (yes, he now has a GPS for traveling needs) we walked a total of 9 miles today! So you can imagine how many bears we saw...
The armored bear statue was over 500 years old. They were everywhere. On the same street was Einstein's house where he came up with the theory of relativity. It was boring, sad to say, but at least we can say we were there.
We also waited to see the old clock. It's called the Zytglogge and don't even ask me how to pronounce that because it's the German part of Switzerland. It had a little mechanical show with bears and a rooster. It was a little anti climatic except for the fact that it was made in the 1400's and still worked. The rooster crowed, the bears went in a merry go round circle, and the man sitting turned his hourglass upside down.
We also got to see the famous bears in their bear pits. They were pretty lively, wrestling in the water. They reminded us of Trixie playing with her doggie friends.
We then went to Munster St Vinzenz, the church in town and climbed to the top of the tower which is quite a climb. It's the tallest church in all of Switzerland actually. The churches here are very underused in our opinions because we were allowed to pretty much go anywhere we wanted. We ate a CRAZY expensive lunch (we're talking $150 after the exchange rate) which included a sea bass for Aaron and the wienerschnitzel for me. Delicious and HUGE portions. Not like we needed so much food, but we don't plan on eating THAT crazy for the entire trip.
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