Kevin just might end up staying in Switzerland forever... in jail. Today marked his third.... yes count them, 1...2....3.... speeding ticket from a "Blitz Box." Here there isn't really a highway patrol to catch dangerous tourists who speed through towns, instead they have a speed trap set up that takes your picture and catches your plate numbers if speeding. Yesterday on our way home from Luzern, Kev got blitzed twice. I yelled at him and said "I told you to slow down!" Just then... another flash of the camera. What is going on here !!!????? At least in the states you can talk your way out of a ticket. I would opt to be the designated driver from now on (who has a clean record of 11 years by the way) but I'm not on the rental car insurance. Stupid.
Luzern was rainy but great. I got car sick winding up and down the roads to the Alps.... probably due to Kevin's ridiculous driving :) We got really sick of trying to speak German and figure out Swiss restaurant menus and found a "California Burger." We ate good old fashioned American Cheeseburgers and Fries while watching soccer and speaking English! Loved it!
Then we (total nerds) decided to pretend we were on the Amazing Race and looking for the next clue... The Sad Lion, ran through the streets, dodging people and checking the map to make it to the next pit stop of the race!!!! I told you, nerds.
Mark Twain called it "the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world" Dedicated to the soldiers who died fighting for King Louis XVI in the French Revolution.
City of Luzern
Little ski town in the Alps
Tuesday we walked to the Rhine Falls: Europe's largest water fall. When I said we walked.... we walked. It was my not so bright idea to park and walk about 1 hour each way along the river to get to/from the falls. Whatever, I needed to burn calories ok?
It was spectacular, we didn't take the ferry to the rock in the middle cuz we're broke. This place is almost 10 times a spend-e as the states.
Moose was scared of the loud water... so cute!
