Lucerne!!

I wake up and I’m in a dream. Lucerne will be my new home. It is very clean, as if people walk behind you with a broom. The lake is simply beautiful. It is also full of swans. I really wanted to catch one but their heads look like snakes about to strike. I think they would be really mean. The people are nice too. Such a contrast to Paris. The food was really expensive though, the waitress the first night kinda ripped me off giving me a 7 frank water instead of tap. It turns out you can drink straight from the water fountains outside too. The buildings were plain, but they had really nice decorations painted on them. Like instead of having golden window frames and shutters, they just painted them on. Then we visited the Picasso collection. I wanted to leave after the first room. His art is atrocious. I genuinely think that he got famous and said “let’s see what they’ll want to buy from me today”. We walked around town after that. I got some good chocolate and very briefly looked at watches. Some of those watches cost more than a car! It is impossible to get lost in Lucerne. I know, I tried. We went to this statue that was on the other side of the map from us and it only took ten minutes. Then we went to this old wall with watchtowers and got a birds eye view of the city. Beautiful. On the way down we saw llamas, of all things, and some small mountain cows with hair over their eyes. Then I met up with everyone at the beach. The water from lake Lucerne comes straight from the mountains. If I were home and turned the water as cold as it will go, it still wouldn’t compare to the lake! But the water was very clear and I swam around for a while. Probably one of the only times you feel better when you get out of the water on a beach. There was one lady there that was topless! Normally that would be exciting, but you should have seen her. She had skin like leather, her complexion shared the color of my boots, she was like in her fifties, and generally would have been unpleasant to look at with clothes on. At one point she struck this playboy pose laying down with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. But other than her, there were many, many girls around. There were like four good looking girls to one of anyone else on the beach. Switzerland gets better and better :). For dinner, we actually found a supermarket and spent 12 franks for a lot of food and wine. Then we met up with everybody again at the beach for the sunset and to hang out since we are always way too loud in hotels. But now I must say goodbye to Switzerland and make my way to Venice.