Day 2 - Tuesday July 18 - Lake Lucerne

 

 Our hotel for the next two nights.

We arrived at the Zurich airport at 7:45 am Tuesday which meant 10:45pm Monday in Mesa AZ.  We had been traveling since 7am.

We were fed very well on the plane (9 hour flight from Chicago), both with a dinner 2 hours of boarding and then about 2 hours before landing, we were served breakfast. 

The flight was uneventful which is a lovely word when it comes to air travel.  Odyssey Tours sent a driver to pick us up and drive us the one hour to Lake Lucerne.  

We met a very nice couple, Patty and Joe from Kentucky that were on the same flight.  

We walked around the property, which sits right on the lake, and since it was only about 9:30 am, we had to wait for our rooms.  So, what else is there to do?  Out of whack on time zones, we had a few local beers.  After all it was still 2 am AZ time!

                       Snow on the mountains

I love Google Photos.  Just take a picture and it translates for you!  It's a good thing, we just cleared our own table even before knowing what the sign said.

Elevator door in the lobby 

Lakefront view from our room's balcony 

I brought a lot of Euros however here in Switzerland, they don't accept them.  They use Swiss Francs. I know our tour paperwork told us this, but I missed it.  Oh well, credit cards will work just fine until we get to Austria where the Euro is the acceptef currency.

We meet up for dinner and our tour meeting at 6 pm.

Dinner at the hotel restaurant.  I had perch with a creamy risotto.  The tomato soup appetizer was a consumme. Different, but good.  Dessert was definitely different.  Raspberry sorbet, deconstructed brownie, aka brownie crumbs, acacia honey.  Definitely a first to eat brownie crumbs.