Did you know that Lucerne used to be covered by a glacier hundreds of years ago? Well, it was. And the only remnants of the glacier now are the very intricate carvings it left on some of the bedrock in Lucerne, some of which we got to see in the appropriately-named Glacier Museum.
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| Woo! Geology! |
...Yeah, a museum entirely about glaciers rocks sounds really boring. And it kinda was. I mean the science is cool, but when the museum is largely just pictures with a bunch of text, it becomes about as fun as reading a textbook. Which is to say, that it isn't much fun.
Thankfully, it wasn't exclusively about rocks and ice. They also had an AMAZING mirror room, which, although completely unrelated to glaciers, was still my favorite part about the glacier museum. Check out these really trippy photos I got while in there. For added confusion, try to figure out which people are real and which are reflections.
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| Don't worry if you can't do it, my mom couldn't either, and she was actually there. |
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| Yeah, I am one of those people that use the viewfinder to take pictures. Don't judge. |
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| I don't know why, but my sister looks like she's Angelina Jolie on the poster for Mr. And Mrs. Smith. |
Things got especially trippy when we reached the end of the maze, where they had a bunch of really tiny mirrors that show off just how cool of a look you could get with a few mirrors.
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| I like this one a lot because of the lights in the background. |
I think this is my favorite picture though:
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| I call it "Joby in Space." |
At one point, Megan actually ran into a mirror believing that it was a passable hallway and it was pretty funny because she was saying something like "It's this way!" but she got interrupted mid sentence by her reflection, which was pretty funny.
Also, the plot of land that the museum is on includes part of a mountain. They had a little wooden tower built on the top of the mountain as a viewpoint, so we climbed it. And the view was SPECTACULAR.
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| Seriously, it's AMAZING. It looks like it's straight out of a painting. |
Afterwards, we decided to explore our inner Charlies and pay a visit to a real Swiss chocolate factory!
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| Unfortunately, Johnny Depp was not there to greet us. |
Initially, I thought their mascot was really creepy. Look at this brown, almondy bastard:
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| The "A" on his hat actually stands for "asshole," not "Aeschbach." |
...But after the entire tour and seeing him literally EVERYWHERE in the factory, I grew to love the guy. And so did Joby.
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| Awwwwwwwwww. |
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| "It's almost adorable how ugly he is." -Samantha, when talking about me. |
The actual factory was awesome too, except for the fact that I probably got diabetes from all the FREE CHOCOLATE WE GOT DURING THE TOUR. They outlined every step of the chocolate making process, as well as the differences between types of chocolate (largely determined by the ratios of cocoa cake/cocoa butter/sugar used in making them), and after every step they showed, they had stations for FREE CHOCOLATE. I especially liked it when they let us sample their white chocolate, since that's the chocolate I like the most. But my favorite chocolate dispensing method they had wasn't the free chocolate fountain with customizable toppings nor was it the Skinner Box-esque dispenser of small chocolate cubes, it was this hot piece of ass.
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| Little do you know, the back of this donkey actually has a cutout of Olivia Wilde's face. |
You see, when you press the green button on his face, something magical happens. Doctors would almost call it miraculous. And if you see it yourself, you'd definitely be inclined to agree with them.
That's right, they have a DONKEY THAT VOMITS CHOCOLATE COINS IN THE FACTORY AND IT'S AMAZING. We came at a time where there was literally no one else in the factory, and since the donkey dispensed a coin EVERY TIME, we decided to exploit it and get a BILLION of these things.
Actually, it was more like thirteen gold and silver coins, but nevertheless, it's a lot of free chocolate.
My sister and I also got to make and decorate our own chocolate, which basically involved pouring melted chocolate into a mold and putting toppings on it before it hardened. Here was my sister's chocolate bar:
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| Colorful, melty goodness. |
And here's mine:
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| Uhhh...? |
I think it's quite obvious who the more artistic one is here.
We ended the tour with a picture on this massive stack of chocolate coins:
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| And by "we" I mean Joby. |
And we FINALLY wrapped up the day by exploring the sights that nighttime Lucerne had in store for us. Take a look at my pics:
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| Every day, we ate at the lakeside of Lucerne, and every day, we loved it. |
Switzerland is amazing.
RFotD: Switzerland would be even more amazing if the stuff there wasn't so expensive.
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