Two-Week Countdown

     We'll be heading back to the USA in two weeks, with a stop on the East Coast before arriving in Seattle in mid August.  Therefore, Le General has instituted a no-holds-barred policy for the final 14 days:  "We shall make a list of fun stuff and cram it all in!  Hand me the pencil!"

     We have mixed feelings about leaving France.  It's been a great year, to be sure.  But there are some things we admit to missing.  Such as a dishwasher, spicy food, a reliable car, English (in Ed's case), painters who don't take a month to get you a simple estimate on two rooms, inexpensive hardware, $4 a gallon gas (try paying $8 a gallon!) and, of course, peanut butter (to name a few).

     Anyway, here are some photos from recent times:

The Always-Photogenic Chateau

"Try a Green Grape?"

"That's Sour!"

Summer Fruit Abounds

Jean and Mireille Visit While Passing Through the Area

These French "milkshakes" were terrible!  Don't order a milkshake in France.

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

  
     I think what Asha meant to say there, was:

Ford still spends a lot of time at the pool.  Sometimes the rest of us come along:

  
Just back from the photo lab, shots of the kids in their end-of-the-year performances:   

CM2 getting down: Klara, Nicolas, Killian, Ford, Nicolas

Camille et Asha entertain

 Yesterday we took yet another canoe trip down the Gardon river (ending at the Pont du Gard).  This time we brought the hippopotomus-beaver-muskrat-dog:

Sometimes she stayed in the canoe with us.  But mostly she swam next to the canoe.  She's part dolphin too.

     Tomorrow is the 14th of July . . . Bastille Day.  It happens that the Tour de France is passing through a town not too far from here on that same day.  We're going to go check it out.  It's on Le General's list after all . . . .