Sunshine

Family picture with the glacier behind us

After a summer filled with too much rain, as in the locals said the rainiest in 60+ years, it has been nice to have sun since Saturday and lovely 70 degree weather.

This weekend we drove to Kanton Wallis, which is south of us, close to Italy and the French speaking part of Switzerland. The mountains are all much higher there and the weather is also usually nicer.
John found a cute little holiday apartment, that was actually a Hamlet...whatever that is, that looked like the typical wooden Swiss house with flowers all around the windows. I couldn't live in a dark house like that, but it made us seem very "Swiss" for the weekend.

The mountain in the middle in the distance in the Matterhorn.

We spent the two days hiking around and up to the Aletsch Glacier. We bought a pass for the two days that allowed us to use all the trains and gondolas in the region for 30 francs a person, which made it easier to get higher up into the mountains.

View up the Glacier

I definitely could tell that we were higher in altitude by how easy I got out of breath when hiking uphill. I have been hiking quite a bit this pregnancy, but mostly down here in the "low" lands. It has been nice to be able to hike during this pregnancy, it is a great workout and a little easier on the body than running.
                                     
Someday I will have a pregnancy related post, someday :)