Kindercity and Kyburg Castle

During the summer we also took a fun daytrip with Karen and the kids to Kindercity in Volketswil and Kyburg Castle near Winterthur.  Kindercity is a "hands-on museum" with a lot of explore.  We had a nice time, exploring playing, climbing on the climbing wall and dancing on the giant piano keys.

Then we went to Winterthur to Schloss Kyburg.  We had been there once before and remembered that it was one of the best castle tours around (our kids are pretty unimpressed by castles now, since they've seen a lot, but this was still fun).  They have scent boxes where you can smell different scents of herbs they used to cook with, and guess which one they are.  You can try on clothes from the time and use a pulley and some gripping tools to try to hoist a giant square stone (with all 5 of us - minus Mer - we did it)!  You can see the armory and even the torture chamber.