Mirror in the Bathroom

During dinner today at what I honestly think might be the most popular restaurant in all of Geneva, I ran to the ladies and was astonished to come upon the most technologically advanced toilet seat I have ever seen.  Taking inspiration from the toilets at O'Hare with the magic plastic wrap that spins over the seat to keep it fresh, upon flushing, the ENTIRE seat rotated about itself, going into this compartment in the back which I assume cleaned the seat.

In addition to space age toilets, Geneva is generally more modern than any of the cities we have visited so far in France.  This shows up in the architecture, the width of the streets, the plethora of luxury cars and the insane prices on even the most basic food items ($10 for a cheese Sandwich).  Given all of this, I am feeling pretty happy with Air B&B for hooking us up with our own apt, 3 blocks from the lake for ~$100 a night.  

Our host is very kind.  After coming to find us when we got lost (no wireless) and taking us back to his place to put ou stuff down, he went to the market and bought us a nice spread for breakfast, gave us some recommendations for restaurants for dinner and made plans to take us sightseeing tomorrow.

We didn't get to go to CERN today because, being the ignorant Americans that we are, we assumed that we could just show up and get a tour.  Luckily, we called, only to be informed that there was no way to go today, and the only chance to go tomorrow was to call at 8:31AM and hope to get one of the same day slots.  We are also working on a back channel way via a colleague of my father's. 

After a picnic lunch by the lake, we headed back to the car to "feed the meter", in quotes because about 50% of the public parking here does not actually have a meter.  Instead, locals have these little paper dials that rest in the window sill.  You simply set the dial to the time it is when you leave the car, and it tells you when you need to come back.  If the parking police come and the dial is set in the future, you get a ticket so you cant cheat it by more than a few minutes.  So, since we could not fit the SUV in the tiny parking garage for the place we are staying, we had to go and "feed our meter" (ie flip the dial) a few times throughout the afternoon.

We took a short siesta and then headed out into the freezing night for some shopping (H&M carries Versache here WTF??) and then to the dinner place Asif had reccomended which brings me back to the fancy toilet.

Lilah flirted with every one in the restaurant so we made some new friends.  Oh, another thing different about here is that it is crawling with Americans.  We saw a lot of Americans tonight, but had seen none in the previous week, even at the touristy sights.  Oh, and, apparently, in Geneva, you can bring your dogs with you to dinner.  While we were eating a couple came into the restaurant with two Spaniels.  We took a picture with them however it didn't come out :-(