eating like a native…thai food in lausanne

I'm not sure if it's all the traveling that is wearing me out or the time difference, but I've been taking four hour naps in the middle of the afternoon like a champion. After my last blog post I completely knocked out and awoke to my mom already dressed and ready to go as usual. We were out the door in the time it took to put my purse in the safe.

My mom promised that we were going to find the burger restaurant that we passed earlier to get dinner; she lied. She actually wanted to wander around the train station during rush hour at the slowest pace known to man while stopping to look at every map and sign. I was still half asleep and in no mood for her antics. I pouted until we went to the nearest COOP for water. We got potato chips (that taste more like pringles which they had in both sweet and normal paprika which is a popular flavor in this country), a banana for my mom, two bottles of water, and madeleines for breakfast. We dropped the groceries in our room and finally went to find dinner.

We grabbed our bus passes (free with our hotel room) and headed for the bus stop; bus 2 to lac. We took the bus past the restaurant across the street from the lake and then walked back along the lake. There were adorable swans pruning their feathers and skateboarders skating past the sign that obviously said no skating. We decided to get Asian food because I know that my time with spicy noodles is limited.

We found an open Thai restaurant and ordered a side of vegetable spring rolls, thai curry rice, and thai noodles. Across the street was an ice cream store that we had seen earlier in the day, and we decided that we had to have ice cream before eating our dinner at the lake; caramel for me and chocolate for my mom. Despite the cold the ice cream was delicious. If the shop owner hadn't been so grumpy I would have taken a picture of the store. There was a big cow in the corner, and the floor was raised clear tiles with fake grass and flowers underneath it!

Dinner on the lake was a beautiful end to the day. Tomorrow we are going to sight see around Lausanne; a destination will be chosen over madeleines and coffee in the morning. It's getting late so I'll say bonsoir.

Me eating ice cream in front of the lake