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Drivin' to...
Lucerne,
Switzerland
- We're Star Trekking, across the universe...
- Breakfast was an especially vile breakfast roll. I stabbed it and left the knife sticking up in protest. Blah.
- Rest Stop Lunch was ice cream and Pringles.
- Great cuisines of the world, indeed.
- All the cities in Switzerland are named after famous fonts.
- Also, the airports are disguised as freeways. The airport buildings are covered in grass, like bunkers.
- We drove by the Riccola factory.
- Then we took a ski gondola chalet thingie up to the top of the Straterhorn.
- Cooooooool.
- Switzerland was like God's paintbox. The leaves on the trees were red and orange. The lake was blue. The hills were green, capped with white snow.
- Lucerne is so perfect, in every way.
- But I bet it gets COLD in the winter.
- You could hear the tinkering of hundreds of cowbells echoing up from the valley below, mixed with the wind of the Alps, and it was like hearing the music of the gods.
- It makes me want to break out an alpenhorn and join in.
- So then we went to the hotel, which was a Real Honest To God Prison at one point.
- There were big locks on the doors with codes you had to punch in instead of keys. And bars on the windows.
- It was gross.
- Think dorms with much nicer bathrooms. No nightstands. ORIGINAL prison beds (yech! I hate you, Contiki) and no TV, telephones, or clocks.
- Dinner was pretty good, though. Chinese stir-fry vegetables.
- Everyone went out to buy Swiss army knives, watches, and chocolates. I stayed in the bar and had a beer with Johnny the bus driver.
- Johnny is the Man.
- Also, the bar had internet.
- Wunderbar.
- So I took a shower and went to bed and around 2 am I had to tell Jeri to stop coughing because I couldn't sleep.
- The Contiki Cough is more than just a little tickle in your throat, kids.
- It's like paying a corporation several thousand dollars to make you sick and keep you up at night.
- But, I like Switzerland. Wish I could stay here for a while. I am so coming back.
Chad and Nicole eat fries at the top of the mountain
The Straterhorn cable car thing
Can you hear the cow bells?
Up on the tip of an Alp (warm day, too!)
The town of Lucerne
Our rennovated jail hotel