Day 22- Switzerland

Friday, May 14 (Day 22)

We left Venice this morning at 7am and headed to Switzerland. The drive was spectacular! There were mountains all around us and we could see their snow-capped tops. There were also cows and sheep in fields along the way. The roads were extremely windy- hairpin turns every couple of minutes. We were climbing the mountain fast! We were also going under many tunnels and when we looked behind us when we came out we realized that we had just passed through a massive mountain!
Ben slept in the aisle of the bus on our way there.

On our way to Lucerne, our tour guide Filippo was talking about the Swiss government and just at the second, we were getting pulled over by the Swiss cops. They wanted to check our weight and driving record. How funny!

We got to a city and saw the weeping lion carving then got to Lucerne. We had two hours to shop around the town. We were taken to a Swiss army shop and I ended up buying two white Swiss army knives (in the color white that are unique to Switzerland) and had them engraved. I also bought Swiss chocolate for my family and friends.

We got to Jungfrau around 7pm and brought our stuff to our rooms and headed down to dinner. It was really good here! There was some chicken and rice with black pepper and risotto looking rice and salad. Dessert was tarkel (I forget the correct word but this sounds similar to it. The real world was used in Alice in Wonderland) which was a watered down vanilla pudding with fruit cocktail and a streusel-like toping.

After dinner, we got into pj’s and played a few card games. Then story time started and I fell asleep.