I slept the first few hours of the ride and woke up in Liechtenstein, a tiny little country I had never heard of before I was actually in it. There wasn't much to see and we only had an hour so a bunch of us decided to grab some lunch. This is about the time when my hangover was starting to kick in and I ended up only eating a few bites of my food. After lunch a few people paid the money to get their passport stamped with the Liechtenstein stamp but I decided not to pay the few Euros. If we had been getting stamps in every country I would have gladly paid but since we crossed boarders freely in the European Union the only stamps I had were for England and France.
We got back on the coach and found out that the AC had cut out; at first Katia had thought it wasn't working because the air vent was opened the wrong way. Turned out that she was wrong and the AC was broken and we still had a few hours ahead of us. Sitting in the back of the bus was the worst idea, it was beyond hot back there. Monica and I ended up standing up on our seats trying to increase the airflow around us. Everyone was pretty grumpy by the time we got to Lucerne, Switzerland. Sian had organized a stop at a shop that sold Swiss Army knives and watches but Sukhey and I decided to skip out and find some gelato. We never were able to, instead had to settle for some ice cream bars.
We had about an hour to wander around and Lucerne really was beautiful but I wasn't in the best mood to enjoy it, the events of the night before were starting to catch up with me. We went into the some of the shops and I discovered how expensive things are in Switzerland, some items were almost double the price of what I would pay at home! We got back on the coach and drove through the Swiss Alps; again it was amazing to see it but the heat was unbearable and it was hard to enjoy. After about an hour we arrived at Mount Titlis which would be our home for the next two days. We took a cable car about halfway up the mountain to our lodge. The lodge itself was pretty nice, exactly how I thought it would be. As soon as we got settled my bad mood was gone. We put our bags in our room and everyone did a bit of exploring to check out everyone's rooms. Some people lucked out and got really nice rooms, others did not - Brylie and Naomi were not so lucky and their room was right under a flight of stairs which ended up being quite loud. We then found out that if we climbed out our window we could get to this huge balcony outside which had an incredible view of the top of the mountain.
It was time for dinner which was pretty good, there was some choice which was nice. I didn't have much of an appetite to enjoy it though. Still not feeling all the great from the night before. Sian organized a movie night for us in the screening room, there really wasn't much else to do in a ski lodge halfway up a mountain. We ended up watching "Hitch"; I had seen it once before and I wasn't too keen on seeing it again but with nothing else to do so I sat through it. The room was fully of huge comfy bean-bag pillows so at least I was comfortable. After the movie Sukhey, Rochelle and I stayed up to play a few rounds of cards, eventually Rochelle headed to bed. There were two computers with free internet (finally) so Sukhey and I stayed up talking and catching up on some emails. Eventually around 2am it was finally time for bed.
Lucerne
At the base of Titlis (Engelberg)
This sign was in all our bathrooms....
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