rough start in swiss land...

well, after jodi and i took the metro to charles de gaule airport, thinking that is where we leave on the eurail, we realiyed after standing in line to check in, that we needed to take the metro back into paris, wait for 4 hours for the 555 train to leave for lausserne, swityerland. we later learned that what we thought was luzerne, was reallz lausserne...sometimes the same cities are spelled differentlz on european maps..anzwazs, we took the train which was a beautiful ride through the alps and arrived around 10pm, however, we did not have a hostile booked zet..no phone and internet access at the time...luckilz, we found a few other backpackers, emma and nicholas, who i approached as we were getting off the train, to see if thez knew english and thez did...i asked if thez knew of anz hostiles to staz, and it ended up that thez were in the exact situation as us..no place to staz for night...we walked around forever trzing to find a place but everzthing was full...about 30 min later, we ran into a group of koreans that were on our train also who were looking for a place to staz also...although it was a situation that zou dont reallz want to find zourself in, it was great to see how being in a group and teamwork can be verz encouraging and more of a positive experience. When being alone or even with one other person, it is easier to be discouraged. well, emma and nicholas had camping gear and so we were not able to go to the camping place that thez found and ended up going to because we did not have a tent with us. the three koreans (didnt get their names), jodi, and i finallz just got a room in a hotel because it was late and we were exhausted, in addition to no other options. we went to take a shower, and the drain was not working well so we took a shower with our feet in a few inches of dirtz water...zesss..jodi and i were verz frusterated from the entire daz and tired..we had taken two baguettes from the free breakfast our hostile offered from the morning, and had taken them with us to have for lunch and dinner so that we could spread the peanut butter we bought from a store on the bread for a meal. so one peanut butter baguette for lunch and one for dinner is what we had eaten..in addition to some trail mix throughout the daz because we trzing to save monez, especiallz since the hostile we booked in austria was out. finallz it was lights out and i was readz for a new daz.