Megan looked at the map before we left and found Meggan and said "we have to go there", so we did. It was right on the banks for Lake Lucerne.

Brecken at the Bern, Switzerland temple where we stayed last night.

I was really impressed with Lucerne. The lake was beautiful and the town/city was very interesting. It had these 2 wooden bridges that cross the river as it leaves the lake and splits the city. There are paintings as you go across the bridge if you look up that have been there since the middle ages. It's pretty neat.

5-29-10 Saturday
Lucerne driving to Germany. I woke up about 4am with Mitzi crying. I took her and tried to entertain her. Brad played with her a little bit while I took a shower and got dressed. Then I took her for a drive with Ian about 5:30am. Finally the rest of the girls were up and getting ready by about 7am, and we were ready to leave by about 8am. We hit a grocery store for some food and basic supplies that we needed, and headed to Lucerne. I didn’t quite know what to expect at Lucerne, but loved it. Lucerne is at the end of a beautiful lake with mountains and trees on all sides. Right at the end of the lake, the river leaves the lake and splits the city in half. We parked about a mile from the city center by a park right next to the lake and walked from there. There’s a beautiful walkway right next to the lake with big trees along it. The city center is extremely old and has 2 wooden bridges that cross the river. These bridges have been there since the middle ages and have scenes painted in the eaves of the bridges. When Kindra and I came to Switzerland about 10 years ago, we stayed a night in Interlaken and loved it, but we both agreed that Lucerne was much better than Interlaken. It had the beautiful lake, the mountains and hills around it, the history of the down-town area, and much more. Anyone going to Switzerland needs to stay a day in Lucerne. After we left the city center and walked back to our car, we let the kids play in the park for about a half hour and they had a great time. We then had about a 2-3 hour drive to where we’d be staying the next week in Southern Germany/Bavaria. Of course, 10 minutes into the drive everyone was fast asleep and I was left again to fight staying awake. One of the things that I bought to take with us that has proved to be a huge benefit was a Garmin GPS unit with maps of Europe. You can tell it where you want to go, and it tells you how far until you have to make the next turn, reminds you when you get close, estimates pretty accurately when you’ll arrive at your destination, and more. It’s been fantastic already. I’m also planning on taking it on my bike. I’ll probably leave it off the first ½ of my bike ride, then turn it on and tell it I want to go back to where we are staying, and I won’t have to think about getting lost. We made it to where we were staying in Germany and everyone crashed into bed.