Traveling Home and Girl's Night

Today was our last day in Lucerne. As our hostel was so far from the train station, when we checked out and went to walk around the city some more, we had to take our bags with us.

We walked over by the train station and ended up crossing the covered bridge. The bridge was such an incredible piece of history of the city. The beautiful flowers that adorned it made it picturesque, and there were these worn paintings of events that happened in the city dating back hundreds of years.

The Kapellbruecke, the oldest covered bridge in Europe!

 

The Kapellbruecke!

 

After the bridge, food was the next order of business. We ended up in a little café, a ways off of the beaten path. It smelled like Broadway Café, something I have been craving since I have gotten here! Their menu was much less substantial than Broadway's, but it did the trick.

We window shopped a little bit, and then decided that our bags were heavy and we wanted to relax for the remaining hour until our train arrived. I got my Starbucks (the pumpkin spice latte I have been craving!), we purchased some Swiss chocolate, and stopped in the grocery store in the train station to spend our last CHF.

Mmm pumpkin spice latte! :)

In the chocolate store, I received a compliment on my German. :) The woman behind the counter told me that my German was very good, and that she could understand me very well. I was extremely flattered. I feel like I have been working hard at speaking the language, and it is nice to have my efforts noticed.

The train ride home seemed to take forever. We did not sleep as much on these trains as we did on the way to Fribourg. It also did not seem to agree with me - I ended up with a migraine and, as soon as we got home, I was down for the count and ended up having to take a nap to recover a bit.

Once I was recovered and had eaten some dinner, Amy and I headed up a few floors to Lineke's room for girl's night. About 10 of us crammed into the room to watch "Something Borrowed," drink some tea, and eat delicious snacky foods. It was a stereotypical girl's night to the max and I enjoyed every second of it. I had missed my friends from Reutlingen the last few days, and it was good to be back with them.