PART I - ZURICH

Thursday in the middle of 2 timezones
abour 4 or 5 hours into our 7 hour flight to Zurich, i'm not sure. Basically my ass is atropheying and i've watched Failure to launch once, and "she's the man" 3 times, which is OK with me because i LOVE this movie. It's so bad, but in all the right ways! Seriously Amanda Bynes, the tampon scene, CLASSIC! If you haven't rented this movie you should, and you also might want to throw in it's original counterpart "just one of the guys" as a suggestion. Classic 80's camp, "All balls itch," it will make sense. We flew into dulles and had these awesome sangwhiches at some place called potbelly house or potbelly porter or something or other. Anyways the point is it was good, and if you are ever near gate C2 in Dulles i suggest you make a stop. It was like quiznos, only better bread, bigger, they included serrano chiles, and it was cheaper. 3.99! after buying a 3 dollar croissant at LAX this was very exciting. Anyways back to what i was saying, there have been 2 legs to this trip which has been better than one of the other times i flew to europe and it took 12 hours straight. btw, watched "failure to launch" which i gotta say was also bad, but not in the right ways. quite dull quite dull.

So then we arrived in Zurich to the renaissance hotel which I have to say was really quite nice. Although oddly they had a really bizarre pan asian theme. I was in Switzerland so I was expecting like cows and cheese and shit. Instead it was like buddah and elephants and feng shui. Then we drove into downtown and the first thing I saw when we pulled into downtown Zurich was the accenture office!

crazy! so bobby or dan, if you ever get sent to zurich this will be your office. it was right on the river so it had a pretty sweet location.
Me on some bridge in Zurich. I wore my red and white shirt in honor of the swiss. Hop switz!! Hop switz!! I don’t actually know what this means but david claims it’s a cheer that the swiss yell when they are excited and at soccer games. If you squint you can kind of see the alps in the background. Don’t worry, they get bigger.

To be honest zurich wasn't that cool to me. maybe i was just tired from the 12 hours of flying, maybe i was jet lagged, maybe i was expecting more. I also don't really like chocolate so that aspect was wasted on me. It was very pretty but it just lacked the sabor that most cities have. it was too clean, and all the women there wore orthopedic shoes, not so sexy, and oddly enough there were ALOT of sex shops. i mean like on every corner. also this was the protestant part of switzerland so...kind of lame as you can emagine. And to top it off it was so expensive! It was like england! More thoughts from that night...

Friday 21st 9am
i'm at my asian themed hotel in zurich. yes you heard me correctly, a pan asian themed hotel in zurich. very random indeed. anyways what i'm seeing is that they charge for everything here in zurich including bottled water and internet. as my mom said "i thought switzerland was way ahead of the times. what is with this charging." We did get a free mini tobleron bar. emphasis on mini