Switzerland Visit Days 5: Lucerne, Tower + Brewery + Starbucks + Long Pants

Lucerne! - the sunshine state, gorgeous! (10 pts if you can guess what movie that is from)

Days 5-7 we took an excursion to Lucerne, 2 nights at a hotel in the city. It was fun to get away for kicks and pretend like we're world travelers. We took the train which went a million miles per hour, and whenever the train staff wasn't walking by, I would put my feet up. They don't like that, but I'm not always one to follow the rules.

There is a wall bordering part of the city, with lots of towers. We went up 5,000,000 stairs to get to the top of one, and the billion stairs was so worth it. The view was amazing. There was this llama hanging out in a field, with a light panel getting energy from the sun to power the surrounding electric fence. That is how wireless energy is going to work I have decided.

One interesting super-not-substantial thing the four of us noticed is that no one ever wears shorts. Long pants 24/7. I wore shorts and I definitely stood out. I wonder if that's just not their style, which is totally fine. I did see runners wearing shorts tho, so I gave them a high five when they passed by as a "way to go against the grain!" (I didn't, but wanted to).

On night 1 we went to a brewery, and Lucerne is in a German-speaking part of Switzerland, ipso facto the beer was really good. I had 1 light beer and 1 dark beer, thank you very much. Not at the same time b/c that would be just crazy. It was good beer and it complimented the mac & cheese that I had as an entree. Win-win.

There is this absolutely beautiful river that runs through the city, and a part of it was under construction with a make-shift dam (dam!). So this water was getting backed up, then it just released in the corner at the end of said dam. It was just beautiful and I took lots of pictures. I'm not sure why I was taken aback by the dam so much, but just the water gushing thru was really cool, and you can go right up to it. I wanted to jump in and have an adventure but then I thought if I drowned then I couldn't enjoy more of Lucerne, b/c there were more things to see than just the towers + brewery + people wearing long pants + dam.

There were a couple of bridges that crossed the river, and one of them was super historic and wooden, and a good chunk of it caught fire in '93. A boat went underneath and got caught and there was fire. Sucks to be that guy. Lots of original paintings in the bridge were wiped out.

That night we walked around some and I hit up Starbucks. There was an upper level which overlooked the river, with Iron & Wine playing in the background and it was ah so nice.