chocolatlife's Blog

Sunday, July 30^th, 2006

We were on the bus most of the day today. I caught up on some sleep and then we listened to music for awhile. By the time we arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland it was time for dinner. I had no idea what to expect out of a local Swiss restaurant called “Stadtkeller”.

My favorite food was the Swiss cheese fondue. The tradition is that if you accidentally drop your cheese bread into the fondue dish, you have to kiss the person on your left. So Jason “accidentally” did this, and kissed my friend, Julia, I think she enjoyed it thoroughly because all of the girls thought Jason was attractive.

While we were eating, there was original Swiss folk music, yodeling, alphornblowing and flagthrowing, and national costumes. Several times throughout the evening, the performers called up volunteers to try all of these traditions. People yodeled, blew the big horns (some of the guys were pretty weak), drank some beer, and did the chicken dance. One of the funniest parts of the evening was when a Swiss cow came out and started licking people and running into them (people in costumes of course). At the end of the dinner, everyone got out of their seats and started dancing in a line around the restaurant. It was extremely fun!

That night, there was thunder and lighting and it was raining. But I was inside the hotel, so I loved it!