PART VII - LUCERNE

we left munich really early, 7 am and ended up stopping in liechtenstein. this sign was basically it. there was nothing really substantial to say about liechtenstien other then it's there and that was that.
We made it to lucerne by lunch and walked around town. they have this really beautiful fountain with a carving in the mountain.
it's a lion that is supposed to represent the swiss guard who were hired to protect the tuileries palace in france. anyways they were massacrd during the french revolution but they styaed by their post and that's why the swiss guard is the bomb and now protects the pope. it was really a beautiful sculpture. mark twain said it was the saddest sculpture he had ever seen.
we went to this open air market and they had a mexican food shack. it looked gross up close. they had fajitas and really nasty looking nachos. the things that foreigners must think of us mexicans just based on the crap that gets exported.
our hotel had another mexican restaurant in it called "la cucaracha: fajitas and steaks." their bathroom doors said "romeo" for men and "julieta" for women. good old romeo and juliet. that's what i think of when i think mexican. ugh
at this big outdoor music festical i saw a table for dianetics. those damn scientologists are everywhere!

and that is my last picture of the trip. here were my final thoughts.



so here i am in lucerne, switzerland. it is my last night in europe and we leave tomorrow morning. ahh america. so quite a few of our hotels have had 2 twin beds as opposed to two queen sized beds. this is the kind of thing that would never fly in america. america is all about excess. a few thoughts i was having today. first off germany definitely had the best toilet paper of all the countries we visited. it was definitely more than one ply and was like 45% close to being charmin. the rest of europe is like 5% close to being charmin. how have they not discovered charmin! i do not understand. i have used toilets throughout switzerland, northern italy, austria, czech republic, germany, and lichtenstein and germany wins. tonight in lucerne along the water front they were having a music and craft festival called blue balls festival 2006. definitely gonna google that when i get home. anyways travelling with my mom has been wierd after doing trips on my own with my own money. My mom loves to eat in the most central, most expensive restaurant/cafe in the middle of downtown where all the tourists go who don't know any better and spend way too much money on coffee and salads. this is so odd to me because i usually don't have any money when i go on vacation. i mean when i went to vegas we had to do the quiznos 2 for 1 coupon for dinner one night so that we could save up our money for strippers.