laurel || maughan || [has a] || blog: Geneva

the adventure to geneva was a raging success. well, maybe not raging,

since it was very. very. cold, but we had a lot of fun and were really pleased with ourselves for "just dashing off to geneva for the weekend".
top geneva moments:
- picnic lunch on the train: good baguettes, camembert, a pear, generic nutella, and some peanut butter
- vivos
- getting off the train with the vaguest of notions of where the hotel was in relation to the train station, but finding it anyway
- scary doorman mannequin in the lobby of Hotel Lido
- our cozy hotel room
- swans in Lake Leman
- crazy blue lights on Ile de Rousseau

- outstanding hot chocolate at the Martel chocolaterie
- meeting richmonders outside the Molino ristorante italiano (tasty pizza and awesome tiramisu)
- square full of international phrases outside Molino (see pictures... it's hard to describe!)
- the machine at the art museum: art you can play with!
- the natural history museum and its plastic dinosaurs, creepy stuffed animals including "every type of tiger known to man" (not as cool as we thought, granted...), and the silly pictures taken within
- "the Jet d'Eau IS on!"

- the ruins of a 4th century church under Cathedrale St Pierre, where John Calvin preached
- crepes. mmmmm....
- sitting in the little restaurant all evening with nowhere to go and nothing to do but chat and enjoy our ice cream
- sunday: nothing is open, so let's goof around!
- videos of scottie as "the french lieutenant's woman"
- picking up seaglass and pebbles with julia

- three travelling companions who crack me up, nonstop, and who are "three birthdays of fun", to steal a phrase from scottie

overall, i am THRILLED with the results of our first adventure outside of lyon, and hope that there are many more to follow.... was also surprised that the whole weekend was actually pretty cheap. just about all of our sightseeing was free, and though meals were pretty expensive, it was all good food. well done, geneva.