Switzerland 2018: Day 1


By the time we made it out of the airport and to our train it was close to 13:00.  After an hour on the train our little band of weary travelers were happy to check in our hotel in Luzern.  The walk to our hotel seemed horrendously long but when I did it the next day with a little more sleep and without kids and luggage, it wasn't very long at all. 

A shower and clean clothes did much to restore our outlook and energy levels.  We went exploring in the afternoon, saw the two famous covered bridges in Luzern and ate gelato.  We had a nice dinner at the patio restaurant on the ground floor of our hotel.  Wren fell asleep while waiting for food.  I have never seen her so tired.  She would be just sitting there and her eyes kept rolling up in her head and she would wobble and start to fall over.  I finally just had her put her head down and she was out the whole time Jeff and I ate. 

After dinner we got kids straight to bed.  I think Jeff and I only managed to stay up another half hour.  I was falling asleep when singing a lullaby to Flynt.  The first half of the evening didn’t go so well.  Wren woke up twice and Flynt was up every hour to hour and a half the first part of the evening.  There was one stretch where Flynt was really fighting going back to sleep and was up for about an hour and a half.  Clocks chiming in the distance in the day time is charming but at night when it is marking your failure to get your kid back to sleep in 15 minute intervals they are significantly less so.  Miraculously, the second half of the night both kids went out and stayed out until after 8 in the morning.  Jeff and I got some good sleep and we are all ready to start day 2 of vacation!


We stayed in the top floor of an old building that overlooked the river and the covered bridge.  It was a fantastic location and the old beams through the middle were super fun for Wren to play on.  I also thought they looked really cool.

This is the view out of the window in Wren's room.
The covered bridge.  

So far, Flynt seems pretty happy in the pack

The whole family on the bridge.  Not a very good picture of any of us but we are on vacation!

Wren asleep on me at dinner.  This restaurant is the ground floor of our building.  If you look closely you can see the bridge behind me.
Wren's view again.

The view out of the master bedroom window

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