Lucerne, Switzerland

Day 3

June 17th, 2009

{Flags outside our hotel}

{Me & Megan waiting to leave to go into Lucerne}

{Mi Padre}

{I absolutely LOVED the scenery in Switzerland!!}

{The streets of Lucerne}

{The lion was carved in the rock as a memorial for the soilders who fought to protect their king}

{Me & Katie at our first stop}

{Walking}

{This is the oldest clock tower in Switzerland so it rings on the hour one minute before all the other clocks}

{Instead of carving the walls they just painted them :) }

{One of two bridges that was burned down..}

{There was like at least 15 swans!!}

{Katie going into confessions}

{The front of the church..}

{The organ in the church}

{Looks like marble uh? Its not...its jut wood painted to look like it because it was too expensive to haul the marble over the mountains}

{uh oh!}

{Remeber the bridge that burned down? Well this one got rebuilt}

{I believe that is Mount Pilatus}

{I blend right in!! lol JK!!}

{Katie talking to our mom..we called her at 3AM AZ time!! Oops!!}

After our day in Lucerne we took a boat to head to our excursion to Mount Pilatus. Our TD had to leave to go get the long lost college group, so we joined up with another EF Tour group so their director could help us out :) And after we got off the boat we had time to chill...

{A view from the boat}

{Our boat}

{Megan chillin}

{So I know you can't see very good, but this kid had really cool blue eyes!!}

{Purty!!}

{Me waiting to walk to the Cogwheel Railway}

We took a cog train up to Mount Pilatus. At some points we were headed up the mountain at a 50 degree angle! It was kinda scarey! haha

{The Cog train}

{Views heading up...}

{There was snow in the middle of June!!}

{A better look of the cog train}

{Looking down the mountain}

{It was really cloudy so pics didn't turn out that great but can you see the lake?}

{Heading down on the cable-car}

So gondola rides back down the mountain were not fun!! I didn't like being up that high!! And Katie, and Megan and my dad had fun making fun of me the whole way down. And we came to the first stop and we all got out {me being the first one out} and we realized we got off at the wrong one....

{Katie & Megan in the gondola}

{definately TOO high for me!}

{Why that face? Someone down below was fertilizing their yard...need I say more?}

{I told them to smile...I guess Katie was still smelling cow crap}

{This is my favorite pic from Switzerland!!}

{Heather, Shelby, Dylan & Rey from our group jumped into the freezing cold lake on our last night in Switzerland!! They were definately insane!!}