Today we slept in a bit, had our free breakfast at the hotel (most hotels in Europe offer it) and took the city bus to Hergiswil to the glass factory. One of the original glass manufacturers in Europe, we watched them make things out of glass the old fashioned way. Mom tried glass blowing herself and she's carrying around the glass globe she made. She wants to get it home. We took the bus back into town. The train would have done this in 10 minutes but the...

We left Interlaken at 7am on the train to Lucerne. Nice ride with beautiful scenery. Got to Lucerne at 9am and went straight to the hotel, only a block away. We were too early to check in but we left our luggage there and started out the day on Mom's favorite, a boat on Lake Lucerne. We bought tickets for the Mt. Pilatus tour which consists of an hour boat ride to Alpnachstad where we board the cogwheel train and climb 5500' in 40 minutes. Had to wait 2...