My 100th blog!! Ethnic food, bachelorette party & hiking

What a busy weekend! Friday afternoon, Joe, Jen, Adrian and I went to the Olympic Museum (the IOC headquarters are in Lausanne) to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Afterwards, we tried out an Afghani restaurant in a neighboring town. It was really good!

Saturday was Stéphanie's bachelorette party, which, in french, is called the 'Enterrement de vie de jeune fille', which literally translates to the 'burial of the life of a young girl'. We had a blast! Stéph's high school friends planned a great day. I made her a 'Miss Bachelorette' sash to wear all day. I also made her a 'pocket-Maya-the bee' because Maya wasn't able to attend the bachelorette party.

-modeling her sash, necklace and portable Maya

We then went on a boat cruise around lake Geneva, ending up in Montreux for dinner at an Iranian restuarant. But, before we got to Montreux, Stéphanie had two tasks to complete.

1. Asking someone on the boat, but not one of the girls, to buy her an ice cream.

-what a great reaction!

2. Stéphanie had to ask the boat's captain if she could blow the horn on the boat. So, after sending a message to the boat's captain, he allowed us up to the bridge! In exchange for blowing the boat horn, the captain put Stéphanie to work, making her count the number of passengers getting off and on the boat.

-with the captain

After we got to Montreux, we went to dinner at one of Stéphanie's favorite restaurants where we gave her a 'survival kit' for marriage that Alexandra put together. You can check out the rest of the photos here!

On Sunday I went hiking with Jen and Adrian. Joe's knee still hurts, so he didn't come along. We hiked up to the Jura ridge, to the top of Le Chasseron, starting in La Combaz & finishing in Ste Croix. It was about 2.5 hours or so to the top, where we lunched with a view of the Alps!

-whole range of the Alps... Jungfrau in left side, Mont Blanc on right side

-the Mont Blanc

We also got to walk through lots of fields of cows.... one was wearing the loudest bell I've ever heard... I don't know how she hasn't gone deaf. I decided that it must be the pregnancy bell because she was huuuuuuge. You can see pictures of the cows, and other pictures from the hike on flickr.