May 29, 2003 – Thursday

My cousin Chris

Today, we were supposed to go to Estavayer with my parents and uncle. But since we never really took any time to get over the jet lag, they told us to stay home and recover.

That night, more of the family came over to dinner, including my cousin Chris, whom I have not seen in 5 years, with his girlfriend Stephanie. Chris had to leave early; he had work at 7:30. He is a bartender at the LoftElectroClub. He invited us to come visit him at the club and stay the night at his apartment, and we decided to take him up on his offer.

Laurie took us around Lausanne a little bit to show us the sights, and then took us to the club. She ended up going in with us, so she could talk to Chris and get us the key to his apartment to stash our stuff. A lot of the people and the bouncers outside teased her a little bit, since it was more of a younger atmosphere.

Chris set us up with free drinks the whole night, which was sweet, even though the selection was not what we were used to. (As in, the Swiss are wussy drinkers.) This older German guy with pretty good English came up to us and started hitting on Kelsey. He was kinda creepy, so we ignored him until he gave up and left.

A group of guys came up to our table and started talking to us. One of them was named Philippe, another Tim. Philippe was talking to Kelsey, saying that Tim thought I was cute, but spoke no English, and wanted to know if I was available. Which ended up being a total crock of shit, because I found out later that Tim spoke almost perfect English. It was a total line!

Tim convinced Kelsey and I to go into the discotheque with him, which was free for us because of my cousin. Tim kept telling me I was beautiful and that he liked me, and since I was a guest in his country, I was required to dance with him. Unfortunately, his idea of dancing was to grab my chest and crotch a lot. He kept trying to kiss me, and slobbered over my neck a bit, and was attempting to convince me to come home with him. It was funny up to a point, but I was getting a little tired of his persistence. Plus, Kelsey refused to dance since she thought it was unfair to Micah back home. Cute and disgustingly sappy at the same time.

We headed for Chris’ apartment, and ended up being followed by Tim and the boys, so we had to race a bit at the end to get into the apartment before they could catch us. When we got upstairs, Chris’ roommate was in the room where we were intending to sleep, so we sat up a bit and talked to him. It was well after 3 am when we finally passed out.