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Here are just a few pictures from when we went
to Geneva, Switzerland. We met up with Laura, a
friend from Abilene who is being a nanny for a
family in Geneva. We all took a train to a little town
and watched the big traditional bringing-the-cows-
down-from-the-mountain celebration. The whole town
was holding a festival for it, and every now and then
cowbells could be heard in the distance and a big
group of cows with huge decorated cowbells and
flowers on their heads would come through the
streets, being herded by these people in traditional
outfits, and people would line the streets to watch them.

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Here come the cows!

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swiss cow herder people...

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moo.

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Laura, Sarah, and me

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Sorry, blurry picture. The cows from a distance.

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Some other nannies who joined up with us and the alpine horn guys

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These dogs also came along pulling huge jugs of milk behind them. Nice shot of the cow dung as well.

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Sarah and I had the best hot chocolate in the world with the entire group of nannies...

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And you thought you'd seen big cowbells before... These guys came down swinging the bells in unison.

That's all the pictures, folks! Sorry I don't have more to post, but thanks for looking!!!