I think I left off at lunch,
Switzerland is a strange country where they cling to the Franc so all of everything is listed in Francs and they will take Euros but nothing is listed in Euros. So we went to McDonald's and got lunch and it cost us 25 Euros - they would only take the bills, not the coins. Very strange. And that equates to about thirty dollars - for two lunches at McDonalds! Unreal.
After that we went off to find the gate but there was no way in because it was pretty late at night and they don't fly at night there because of noise or some such thing. We settled in on the couches by the Starbucks but after getting all tucked in two men settled in (taking cushions and laying them out on the floor) and refused to shut up. I even asked them to shut up - no deal. I guess they left after 1am - I was asleep at that point. Mom didn't get any sleep. We made it to our 7 am flight without any problems and flew off to Amsterdam.
Amsterdam airport doesn't seem as big as the airport in Zurich. And our flight there was delayed a bit. Mom took all the Euro coins to the airport store and bought a bunch of candy bars and an orange. And then they took her sissors away from her at security.
I watched two movies on the plane and we arrived on time. Customs took mom's orange away and my sister picked us up at the airport and fed us lunch.
It was a great trip!
Tomorrow I'll cover some more.

I tried to update the other day - it all got lost so here it goes again...
We got up, had breakfast, did the final packing and saying goodbyes and got a ride to the train station. We left with a good hour to spare because we still had to buy a ticket from Basel to Zurich. We got to the counter and the agent points out that the train we are taking only runs on Sunday and it is not Sunday. Oops. The train we need to be on leaves a half hour earlier - we are good to go. We got on our train. Waited an hour and got on our next train. But our next train went to Zurich central and not the airport. Oops.
We arrive in Zurich and the train station is HUGE. It's a city unto itself. I think it's bigger than the Grand Bazaar. We find the ticket agent, we find the train and we go to the airport. HUGE - clearly Zurich is composed of an airport and a train station and little else. Inside the airport we find the check-in counter probably minutes before it closed for the night - good thing too because I didn't want to haul them around all night.
Then we went to McDonalds for lunch.