Switzerland is amazing. The train ride last night went much better than expected. We had a six person bunk room (3 beds on each wall) and the sixth person in the room was the sweetest girl named Elly from South Korea. She got off in the middle of the night in Frankfurt and left us a note thanking us for the wonderful time she had. Anyways I think we all got more sleep than we thought we would, aside from the fact that we woke up in the middle of the night d...

Leaving for Zurich in 3 hours.... Update: We talked to a woman at our houseboat who lives in London and she says that the reason they don't have trash cans there is because of the Irish car bombings in the '80s. Apparantly the bombs were put in the trash cans and it is just recently that they even put some back. She says that everyone just gets used to carrying around their trash until they get home. Last night we walked to an Italian restaurant for a...

We went to a three story Chinese restaurant on a boat for dinner last night. It was horrible. Sadly disappointing and I'm not sure when the next time I will be able to eat Chinese is. Breakfast on the boat this morning was a vast improvement to our past meals. By the time everyone was ready, it was time for lunch again. So we sat for an hour and a half at a sports restaurant while our mildly stupid waitress repeatedly forgot to serve us. Rach and I went to...

Yesturday was a slower day, which was nice for our final day in Paris. Rachel and I got up early-ish and took the metro to the Champs Elysees. We wanted to see some nice designer stores, but there were very few. Most of them were cheaper sale shops. The only designer shops along the rue are Louis Vuitton and Cartier. There are a lot of cafes on the street, so we had a very french lunch outside. We all took the RER train (suburban train outside of Paris) to ...

Yesturday morning we went to a Patisserie and ate croissants before going to the Eiffel Tower. The bus ride took 2 hours, because we took the tour bus ticket that we had purchased the day before. We ate lunch under the Eiffel Tower, another ha, and cheese baguette (running total: 5). At least I can stand the sight of fries again. Nick, Ted and Heather walked up the first 2 flights and took the elevator to the top while Rach and I waited in line to ride the whole ...