What a last few weeks in Switzerland. After my parents left I was sure a busy girl. I didn't realize how much I still wanted to do until I realized how little time I had left!The weekend after mom and dad left Malin, from Sweden, came and spent the weekend with us. She will be the girls new AuPair in January. What a nice girl. We had a nice weekend around Basel and took a trip to Lenk where there was my first snow of the season and a really crazy parade!
The next weekend was another spectacular weekend with Renee. It was World Peace day and Global Warming Awareness Day. Renee and John, a friend from Pacific living in Germany, and I did a Global Warming Demonstration. The 350 organization allows people to post group demonstrations all over the world for people to join and then gets to exhibit all of the 350 demonstration photos at the UN Global Warming
meeting in December as a way to show how many people are aware of the global warming that is happening. For our 350 demonstration we hiked with a bunch of other Swiss people to the Aletch glacier, the largest glacier in Switzerland, and took a few photos of our group and our 350 there. It was really fun meeting the other people in our group and being part of something...even though I was such a small part, I am still making a statement. Bus aside from the 350 demonstration, it was such an amazing day. Beautiful weather, fun people and amazing mountains! After our great hike Renee, John and I headed to Sierre where we couch surfed with 2 really cool German students in the village of Bluche. Bluche, accessible by funicular, is a town of 750 residents and 1400 students attending the international school or tourism management. What a cool place! We met so many different people. When we woke up it was also BEAUTIFUL! Right in the heart of the Alps we were so close to great hiking!
Renee, John and I spent the day hiking around the area. We went to the Crans-Montana ski mountain to start our hike and went along old irrigation water ways on the sides of the mountain. It was another amazing day...the only clouds were the ones to make amazing photos! 
Adieu to John but Renee and I were together again the next weekend for Halloween. I spent the week turning the Bleich's basement into a spooky house for the Halloween party that we had for the kids. I made a bunch of Halloween theme food and Norbert got dry ice for a cool table! I told a spooky story and even went trick-or-treating at the neighbor's house! It was fun to celebrate Halloween. The grown-up Halloween party was the next night at Renee's house in Biel. We made food and I made the best 80's party mix and we hosted an awesome 80's party! There were people there from so many places, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, and probably more but I "can't remember." I had a sweet Jane Fonda aerobics costume! I can't believe that I wore that much colorful spandex all night! It was the best costume of the evening though! Halloween was a blast but I was ready to relax. Spend my last few days with the girls and family and enjoy Switzerland! My last night was beautiful...family dinner. Wolfram and Lydia, Christian and Petra and the kids, Christina and her family and Renee all came over for delicious Norbert risotto and Renee brought Key Lime Pie!
Off to Spain for more adventures!
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