A Vermonter's view of life's trials and tribulations on the French Riviera
These things below are edible pigs, they are quite a delicacy - all cream and mousse and cake inside. My friend Philippe brought them for the girls last Sunday morning when he came for brunch.
Neither girl would touch them. Thomas and I were "forced" to eat them, snort snort.
And here's Léna showing how she can "Meow" and sign "cat".
This was one cool horse, which was discussed at breakfast and was a finished reality before lunchtime. It was made with the end of a hockey stick, some pieces of Thomas' playroom, and part of a strap of a boot. Good old homemade Halloween costumes!
Meanwhile, Léna, a.k.a. the Busy Bee. And below, Estelle a.k.a. Annie Get Your Gun.
That other little girl was just one of the MANY princesses at the Library's Halloween event Thursday night. Of about maybe 5o kids, there was only one Cowgirl and one bumblebee!
Estelle's cowgirl outfit came piecemeal from Aunt Martha over the past 2 years. We are thrilled! The only thing I bought was the hat for 5 bucks.
The Library's event was many different stations, all manned by real anglophone university exchange students, and each station had a different activity/task, at the end of which kids got candy and stickers on a map that they had to complete. It was great fun, for me too!
This was some kind of Harry Potter thing:
This nice Welsh lady pulled creepy things out of her bag and told the kids their names in English once. Then the kids had to locate each thing once she called out the name. Estelle thought this was easy-peasy - she said "why does she want me to tell her where the nose is? Doesn't she know it is called a nose?"
This was some kind of maze with music. The boys running this gave us lots of candy!
Pumpkin carving! Yeah!
There were some fun costumes....
Some great activities and some of them were arts & crafts, like turning oranges into mini-pumpkins with candles in them, a new one on me. The whole event itself took just over an hour. Great Halloween fun.
No this is not child labor in strike aftermath. 2 Saturdays ago we had a little soirée with 2 1/2 other couples and a total of 7 kids. Estelle's room got pretty wild.
Eliott hung tough as the lone boy amidst 6 girls.
Estelle enjoys a bath, making Irish soda bread with me one morning....
A visit from my friend Chantal...
Socca with 2 retired teachers from Hazen High school, colleagues of my brother Wes.
Playing PlayMobil with Pierre. 
Supposedly we'll be getting on a plane Friday morning......if there's not a strike....
So innocent... (and this is Léna's room for those of you who have never seen a photo of it)
And pure
Sunday morning we went to the beach with Pierre at Villefranche....
That's Thomas & Lena in the foreground on the rock...
It was a beautiful morning
That's Estelle out in her Winnie the Pooh buoy.
Saturday afternoon we met up with my American/Ghanian friend Naad and her daughter Mai. They live over on the other side of town now so we don't see them as often...
No movies but this is the best I can do with the old MacBook....
