Lucern to Wengen September 7th

Mary, Margaret, Leanne, Susan & Doug had a quick coffee at the hostel, dropped off our backpacks at the train station and started on a walking tour of Luzern. We checked out both the lovely wooden bridges (Mill Bridge and Chapel Bridge). There were some great sights to see with interesting paintings on the buildings and neat squares. It was a quick walk to Lowenplatz to see the crying lion, but we skipped all the museums. And surprise we ran into Sarah & Ken! again, after only 5 text messages...

Sarah and  Ken left Zurich early to spend the day in Luzern on the way toWengen.  In addition to the walking tour they took an afternoon paddleboat cruise on Lake Luzern - very romantic.

We all continued on to Wengen on different trains and arrived to be greeted by Carol & Larry who had arrived earlier from Paris. They had a lovely time in Paris and really enjoyed the treats at Angelina's so much they had to visit it twice. Before Paris they had been in London for five days where Carol managed to ditch Larry for two hours for a Harrod's shopping spree. They visited the main museums and had some fabulous dinners. Carol particularly enjoyed the Hop-on-Hop-off tour where the driver managed to lurch the bus on a curb and fling her to the floor...  luckily no serious injury, but made for a good story.

First order of business was laundry, then groceries and wine. We threw together a quick pasta and salad meal that was really tasty and enjoyed our first meal all together. After dinner we checked out Wengen at night and found a local pub with a late 2 for 1 happy hour. We stopped for a glass of wine for the girls and coffee for the boys. Then headed back to our lovely chalet and a good night.