DAY 2

GENEVA....

We stayed away from all public transportation today, which was fine because Geneva is pretty easy to get around on foot. We bought some pasteries for breakfast and sat at the lakefront watching people walk by. I took a picture of some guys really cool red rollerblades! Then we went to a co-op (food store) and bought some food for lunch, dinner, and tomorrow's breakfast. Then we came back to the new hostel we are staying in tonight (all girls dormitory) and ate lunch and took a nap. This hostel is quite quaint. Very "homey." There is a cathedral nearby (St. Pierre Cathedral) that rings a bell every fifteen minutes -- in a relaxing kind of way. Tonight we went to the English Garden, near the lakefront, where they had a festival. Wendy and I enjoyed sitting in the grass, drinking our beer, listining to "American" music playing live. There was even a "wannabe" buckingham fountian nearby. It was perfect. I remember sitting there thinking it doesn't get much better than this. Later that night we went into the old town and were people watching. This drunk AMERICAN teenager came and tried to get on a plastic cow (much like the ones in downtown Chicago) and she fell flat on her face on the ground. That pretty much made my night.... I love Geneva! If I knew French, I could live here.

**note to my readers... I will be away from a computer all day saturday so I won't be able to post. but I will be back on sunday!