While my friend Josh was visiting, we went hiking on a Saturday. Due to bad weather in most of Switzerland on that day, and snow still in the mountains if you get very high up, we went to the Swiss National Park. Its in the Graubünden region in the east part of Switzerland where they speak Romansch, Switzerland's 4th national language. I believe this was the first time I'd ever been in the Romansch-speaking part because I don't remember seeing it written before. It seems to be very similar to French. Anyhow, the hike was beautiful and we had a great time. My friends from work, Adrian and Piotr, came with us. Adrian is the expert hiker and came prepared and directed us so we didn't get lost. All three of the boys filled their hiking backpacks with beer. By the end of the day, they had all ganged up on me, the lonely girl, and were calling me the "commander" (I don't have a clue why...) ;).
Josh washing his hands in the mountain stream:
It turned out to be such a beautiful day and the views throughout our hike were amazing.
The Swiss National Park preserves wildlife. We ate lunch in this area where there were several groundhogs checking us out.
There were still patches of snow to hike through at various points in our hike. May is still quite early in the mountains for hiking.
The Deloitte crew with some hiking beers:
So here is Adrian after he captured a "beer" - one of the wildlife you might see in the Swiss National Park. Yes, there's a story behind this picture - on the train ride there Adrian was telling us that we might see some wildlife in the park and that there is even a bear that lives there (although sometimes he goes across the border into Austria). However, Adrian pronounced "bear" as "beer". I shouldn't give him too hard of a time because English is not his first language and he (like most Swiss) speaks it wonderfully, but it was pretty funny!
And of course some more beers on the train ride home:
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