lots of stuff!

Since my last entry, I've kept myself quite busy. I went to the hospital in Geneva and observed an epileptic patient while they determined what part of her brain they need to remove to help curb her seizures. I'll be going back within the next few weeks to observe a surgery... how exciting! Then on Friday, Fabien (a colleague) had his public thesis defense. Joe then left on Saturday morning for a conference in California....so not fair!! But since he left, I had paella at Adrian's Saturday night and then I went hiking with a bunch of people (Adrian, Stephan, Kristen, Rikki, Michael, & Sandeep) near Gruyere. The plan was to take the cablecar halfway up Moléson and hike at 1500 meters around the mountain. The only problem was that when we got there, the entire area was under snow and the path that we were going to take was blocked off with the following sign: Danger of Avalanches. You can actually see the avalanche snow across the path in one of my pictures on flickr.

-me with the sign

So we headed back down the cable car and then Stephan asked the stupid guy that sold us the tickets up the mountain where we could go hiking instead. So we went to a gorge nearby in a town called Broc, where the Cailler chocolate factory is located. Incidentally, Adrian had already hiked the gorge, but it was really pretty yesterday so he didn't mind doing it again. We hiked the gorge and then hiked around a lake. All in all, we hiked for about 4 hours and by the time we were finished, the sun came out and it was beautiful out.

-Moléson behind the lake

Of course I also had to play with the macro on the waterproof camera. It's not as good as the big bad Sony, but I got a few decent photos out of a lot of bad macro photos....next time I'll bring the big bad Sony.

-Cluster of pretty purple flowers

-Water droplet on moss