This morning, when I woke up, I had two goals. First, to get outside, taking advantage of the promised sunny weather, and climb the Uetliberg. Second, to visit a new church. Of course, I was thwarted at every turn.
The promised sun never appeared today. In fact, the weather was absolutely horrid, with a blanket of super thick fog. Thus, I abandoned the hike. No point in going up to a lookout if one can't look out.
When I tried to go to church (an evening service), I ended up wandering around lost for over half an hour before abandoning my pursuit because it was getting dark. I read and re-read and even wrote directions down from the internet, but to no avail. Of course, warning bells should have been going off when the clearest part of the directions involved "...head(ing) east down Hardstrasse..." I am very nearly hopeless when it comes to north, south, east and west even in Minneapolis, a city that I know fairly well. There is no hope for me to know which way is east here, that's for sure. Also, here I find it very difficult to find street signs, so most of the time I don't know what street I'm on. And there was a ton of construction around that area. It was a perfect storm of circumstances conspiring against me, although really I just tend to get lost very easily. Hopefully I'll figure it out the next try.
Of course, my day wasn't bad, but I just didn't get to do what I wanted. With the exception of Skype-ing with my dear friend Jessi, which was the redeeming part of my day. I'm so thankful to have a friend only a time zone away!
