Much Ado About Nothing

6:30am alarm.... non-existent today! For a change we slept in a little til 8:15am and took our time this morning. After a leisurely breakfast and checking out, we walked around town and the Reuss river to finish our self guided tour from yesterday. After our stroll around the river and side streets, we tried to take a scenic route to the famous Lion statue (which involved a little bit of hiking). This scenic route included us following an ancient great stone wall, which reminded us of the great wall of China, however it was not that big. The Lion statue was in more of the touristy part of town and the site was filled with many asian and children tour groups (however, for some reason there were an uncanny amount of asian tour groups in Lucern- which we never figured out why). Amazingly, the statue was carved right into the side of a huge rock. At 20feet tall and around 30 feet long, it depicted the lost lives of Swiss soldiers during the french revolution.

After we had our fill of tourist attractions, we walked around and lightly shopped. However, we mostly just walked around because of how costly Switzerland tends to be and our already thin wallets. We later decided to take an earlier train to Zurich to avoid any delays or close connections with our night train.

The night train to Praha (Prague) was very interesting and very tiny. We stuffed all our huge 65lb suitcases and bookbags into the tiny cabin, that consisted of 4 beds and a ladder. Upon boarding our night train, we met 5 Texan students (what a relief) who actually turned out to be accountants studying in Prague as well. (Nerds of a feather flock together, huh?) Although it was a relief to meet people similar to us, it was also a bit unnerving to have a creeper standing inches outside our door all night. But no worries, Allayna secured us in by locking our chain lock with a cable suitcase lock (that door would not be broken into). A bad breakfast and 13 hours later we arrived safe and sound in Prague!!!!