After picking up Paul from the Frankfurt Airport, we dropped off his luggage at the apartment, grabbed some Doner Kabab sandwiches and headed off through the Black Forest and then past the most beautiful countryside toward Luzern, Switzerland. We enjoyed seeing the farms, chalets, baby lambs, and the cattle--Holsteins, Charlais, and Swiss Browns. We saw snow on the Alps in the distance, and the clouds in the sky were incredible!
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We went through Waldshut, Germany, where Bob lived for a while serving his mission.
We passed through several long tunnels on our way into Luzern. It was beginning to get dark when we checked into our downtown hostel, Baslertor. Guess who we should see in the lobby but Brother Hammond from our Stake, who was there enjoying a trip to Europe with his wife.
Bob found his favorite dark chocolate that just happens to be made the the Cailler Company, owned by the family of the translator for my English class.
The next morning was rainy, so we put up our umbrellas and headed out again to explore. We stopped in a beautiful bakery and found delicious slices of Quiche Lorraine for breakfast. The Old Town still maintains its architecturally quaint old buildings, but now, every high end store that you might find in a sophisticated American mall is located on the ground floor of these beautiful buildings.
This is Bob trying to look a lot shorter than Paul, which now he really is (by about and inch).
Bob also served in Luzern during his mission, so we revisited some of his old stomping grounds. He took us to see Lowendenkman,, a beautiful sculpture of a lion designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France. A replica of Thorvaldsen's Christus stands in the Salt Lake Temple Visitor's Center.
We crossed over the old wooden bridge and headed off to Zurich, Switzerland.
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