Lugano (Saturday)

Saturday morning we had slept in. I think it helped that it was a bit dark outside and it looked like rain. We decided to walk around the downtown area.

Lugano is surrounded by hills and that means lots of steps. We thought this was a funny picture of Devin pretending to climb all the steps. It was very steep.


We are still amazed at how many European cities have a statue of George Washingon.

The church of a former Franciscan Monastery, "Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angioli" built in 1449.

The church contains the most famous Renaissance wall-painting in Switzerland - "Passion of Christ" by Bernardino Luini (1529) It was beautiful.

We continued our stroll thru the streets and doing some window shopping at all the designer stores. We always have fun buying something at one of the stands at the brocante (flea market). The weather just did not want to cooperate and it began to rain and never stopped.

We headed back to the pool and had it all to ourselves. I copied this picture from their webpage.

It was still pouring down rain after 3 hours. We decided to watch movies in the room. There were quite a few that we had not seen and we decided to spend the flat rate for all the movies we could watch. The boys chose "How to train your dragon" which was a very good animated movie. Then Katelyn chose "The princess and the frog" which was good too.

After the movies we were starving. So we decided to head out into the storm and run for 1 block back to the Italian restaurant. Lucas enjoyed his "smile" pleasing calzone.

Of course we had dessert and Kate's strawberries and cream was delicious.

Dinner and dessert killed 2 hours. We got back to the rooms and the kids went to bed. Jason and I stayed up and watched "Shutter Island" which was a good but crazy movie.