Our Final Stop: Lausanne

For our final stop on this month long journey we spent about a week in Lausanne, Switzerland. We had been her once before and enjoyed relaxing on the water and eating the most delicious pizza in the world, and I have to admit it was that pizza that pulled me back there. We are leaving for our next trip on Monday so I wanted to quickly pump out this post so I could get going on our next journey when we arrive.

When our train arrived and we got situated at the hotel our first stop was the pizza place for some dinner. We had been dreaming about it for so long so we just had to get some.

All of the pizzas have names that refer to people. Politicians, music artists, etc. Don't know what these two were called.

Enough pictures... Chowing down.

We didn't get enough of the pizza that we got it to go for our boat ride the next morning/afternoon.

Mark actually goes in the water. I do not.

The pizza place, Boccalino. The service is horrible, but that's ok.

We also visited the Olympic Museum that is in Lausanne. It is the home of the olympic committee. It's especially cool to see all the torches from all the years and also what the medals looked like since the beginning.

Here are some snapshots from various places around Lausanne.

On one of our days we figured out how to get passes for their bikeshare system and went for a ride around. It was beautiful and fun to see other parts of Lausanne besides the downtown and by the water.

Funnest. Playground. Ever. That seesaw was super fun as was the spinny thing. We sat on the seesaw and talked for about half an hour going up and down.

On our way back to the hotel we had to find some food because we were starving, but a little sick of pizza. :) We stopped at this restaurant along a dock/pier and had some of the most delicious pasta we've ever had. Mark's, pictured in the front, was asparagus ravioli with a delicious cream sauce and bits of asparagus. Mine was the best gnocchi with cream sauce and GOOD prosciutto.

Since Lausanne is not that far from Geneva we took the train out there and spent the afternoon.

On our way to Geneva.

After we got back we checked out the latin festival that was happening near our hotel and ate some paella and had mint mojitos along the water. Afterwards we ventured over to the fair and while we did not ride that beast of a machine we did ride some fun rides. I hate roller coasters and other such things, but we even rode a skinny ride which Mark did not like.

Our final day we had time to go out on the boat one last time and we stayed out for a long time and ventured further out than we have ever gone. It was peaceful, beautiful, and very relaxing.

Ready to go home, but knowing we would miss being in Europe, we awaited boarding the new A380 which had actually started its first commercial flights while we were in Europe. There are several camera angles which you can view such as from the nose, from the top of the tail, a view below, etc. It was very fun to watch take-off and landing.