Hi friends. We're in Switzerland right now, we just left a town called Lucerne, or Luzern as they say it. Its known for its cheese, chocoloate, watches and knifes. Its a really cute little place with a population of 30thousand or something like that. Kirsten thought it was a nice change after being in Paris and London but Allison likes her big cities. We arrived after a FULL day on the bus, in which we were all sooo hung over from moulin rouge.. still worth it though. We were both lucky enough to sleep most of the way there and when we got to our hotel we spent the night writing emails and uploading pictures. As some of you may know we only had wifi in the bottom floor so it was impossible to do anything online! I sat in the lobby and skyped for a bit but its sucks cuz everyone can hear you.

We started the next day by walking to this mountain called mount pilatus, legend has it that this was the mountain that the man who condemmed Jesus to death found peace in after he passed away, and his soul was guarded by a dragon. For hundreds of years no one was allowed to go up the mountain because of the dragon and the evil spirit. Eventually a priest went up to the moutain and realised it was a friendly dragon. Now people can ride up the mountain in a cable car and the dragon is a symbol of Lucerne, its everywhere. So up we rode for about half an hour, all the way to the top, wow was it ever high. It was awesome, but very similar to the rockies, just with no animals. All of the aussies on our tour absolutely loved it! Some of them had never seen snow before, and there was a lot of snow! One of them even stripped down and starting rolling around in it, it was hilarious! There was also a man playing one of those big long horns at the top... not sure what theyre called.

After the mountain we went on a little walking tour and saw some famous bridge, a bunch of swans and a lot of cute little buildings. We eventually split up as Kirsten went to the cheese fondu lunch and allison being lactose didnt. We parted ways for the first time then and spent the afternoon with other people in our group, wow was that weird! We both spent the afternoon shopping for chocolate and checking out the mountains. We also both manged to see this thing called Luzern's Lion which is a lion carved into a mountain, its really cool.

So now we're on the bus on our way back to france with something like another 6 hours to go. We will be sleeping in a legit castle tonight though, which we're both really excited for. Also we just passed a bunch of bison.. what!?!

Danka for reading,

Kirst and Allison

 The Tower at Night. So pretty!!!

---PS KIRSTEN'S FAMILY!!!
Theres this guy called Bryn that reminds us so much of Spence! At first it was just the fact that he spent the last 2 months in BC snowboarding that reminded me of him, but everyday I find something that reminds me of him more. Its so funny! He's tall and lanky, has curly hair just like my brother and their styles are exactly the same. I was looking at the swiss watches since theyre the best in the world and i saw a couple that i thought spence would really like.. i told allison spence would love this, he has a nixon watch just like it. Then two minutes later I was talking to Bryn and I saw that he was wearing a nixon watch. He also wears this toque which is exactly like the black or navy one my brother has too (except aussies dont call them toques, they call them beanies) To top it off im sitting on the coach now I just looked over and realised he was wearing oakleys and beats. Soo funny. You guys are identical Spence.

 The Bridge in paris with all the locks on it.