Day 7 - Patience in Switzerland

If you ever want to test your patience, try sitting at your computer for 1 minute after you try to load each page. Then, after that, try sitting there for half an hour and wait for each page to load. Cause I’m doing that second one. Waiting is not fun. Especially when you really really want to do the thing that you’re waiting for. It’s so frustrating to see that you have a message, but you don’t know who it’s from or what it says for over half an hour. And I’m not exaggerating.

But anyway. Lucern is an alright city. We were worried the other day when it was cloudy, concerned that it may push back or cancel our trip up Mt. Pilatus. But the morning was pretty clear, with only a slight mist around the peak. We got to the top of the mountain using the cogwheel train, then to get back down we rode in a gondola and cable car. The view would have been better without the slight cloud, but it wasn’t raining and it wasn’t completely cloudy, so it was a successful trip for me!

After the mountain, we took a little ride around Lake Lucern. Nothing too special, but seeing the surrounding mountains was very pretty. Finally, some down time. I’m absolutely exhausted and it is a whole lot harder trying to find a Switzerland sweatshirt than I ever would have imagined.

Things to keep in mind:

When buying souvenirs, when you see something that you like a lot, go ahead and buy it. Don’t tell yourself that you will buy it later, or see if you can find it cheaper somewhere else. Sure, sometimes that works, but for the times it doesn’t, it turns out to be a heartbreaker. Learned this the hard way and realized that potentially saving $5 isn’t worth missing out on something that I really wanted.

German is a very confusing language and very difficult to understand. I loved Italy cause Italian is very similar to Spanish, so I could kind of translate words enough to understand what was being said to me. But here, I’m totally clueless. So Sam, Caroline, and all you German speakers out there.. wish you could translate for me here in Luzern.

P.S. Again, with my patience running low, the pictures will have to wait for another day. My apologies.