Things that fascinate us on this trip:
- having to pay for the "water closet"
- seeing people in fields picking things. By hand.
- everyone driving small compact cars
- most people being bilingual
- the amount of mopeds and bicycles in Geneva
- bicycles--and cars--driving on sidewalks
- pedestrians do NOT have the right of way
- the gracious and helpful people
- no screens on windows...why???
- the Alps
- no air conditioning
- the price of food...and gas
- Swiss chocolat
- seeing George Clooney in a windowfront in a watch advertisement
- tunnels so long that even Rachel can't hold her breath all the way through them
- the trees
- not having clothes dryers
Some things are awe-some, some things are "you've got to be kidding me!" It amazes me how indulgent our culture is. How much we expect--how much we take for granted. Things I've never thought about actually being a luxury--not a necessity. I expected to find some of these things in third world countries, but not here. But we really are so pampered as a whole--we don't even think about it.
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