Lucerne

For our first excursion out of Lausanne, we took the train to Lucerne and spent a night there. We got up on Saturday morning to find that it was snowing in Lausanne. This didn't make Mom or Dad very happy since we had to walk to the train station in the weather. However, I have not been in the snow for almost ten years so I was excited. In any case, it's not like we were stuck in a snowstorm, there was barely any snow actually on the ground. It was about a two hour train ride to Lucerne, and fortunately it was not snowing. It was, however freezing ass cold outside (to use Peggy's term) and very gloomy.
Lucerne is a beautiful city, located on Lake Lucerne and completely surrounded by the Alps. Lucky for us, Sunday was clear and beautiful (although still freezing) and we took a three hour walking tour of the city with a wonderful tour guide who was born and raised there. The city is still surrounded by the stone wall and wooden bridge built in the 1300s as a defense for the city. The wooden bridge is the oldest in Europe and still decorated with original artwork. Many of the buildings are covered with old frescoes and old fountains are scattered throughout the city which provided water in the days before modern plumbing. The city certainly has more character to it than Lausanne (I like it here too, though).
I have added pictures of the Olympic Museum under the Lausanne link and made a new link for pictures of Lucerne.