Friday in the City

Our day centered around a trip to the Natural History Museum.  We all could have spent the whole day in the geology section, but forced ourselves to push through the rest of the first floor as well.
The first photo here is a Chinese creation.  Only the stems are not rocks.
The top quarter of the walls in each room have paintings and some have these odd statues that we didn't really have time to identify.  (second photo)  The kids were happy to find a little area dedicated to the New Zealand kiwi and moa birds.  (4th photo)
For lunch we went to a Brotchen shop where they only serve small open-face sandwiches with spreads and sometimes toppings like onions and sliced boiled egg.  They also claim to have invented the Pfiff, which literally means "whistle", and is a very small serving of beer.  We all liked it a lot.  I liked the crab spread, Maya liked the cream cheese and lachs, Jarrod liked the red pepper spread, and Gabe didn't have a favorite.  We stopped off at St. Peters on the way to the chocolate store and snapped a photo of the angel Gabriel.  Then.....St. Xocolat
Maya was in heaven and Gabe swears he was hoodwinked by the sales lady who gave a free piece when we walked in which, "Gave him a craving for everything in the store."
After we each picked out our chocolates we went to a cafe for hot drinks which fortified us for the walk to the stand where we got a bag of roasted potatoes, which fortified us until we got on the bus and popped a truffle into our mouths, which fortified us until we got home for a nice cup of tea.