Play time at the Lake

Peaking out thru the castle window.
Getting ready to jump in the water off Papa's Boat.
Sean testing out the water.

Swimming with Mommy. Sophia actually jumped off the end of the boat & climbed down the ladder multiple times. The grandchildren of our neighbors were having a blast in the water & Sophia decided it looked like fun!

Hugs for Sean...

We're back!

Sorry for being so silent the last month, but we've been pretty busy with travel & are just now back home to Paris. The "re-entry" begins, but I bet it is going to be pretty late this year, because it is pouring, and apparently has been like this for most of August. Not a very good summer in Northern Europe...

Anyway, as a welcome home we have a new video - I'll be adding much more over the next few days, not sure if I'll be able to keep them in order of experience or not, but I'll try.

Liam & Sophia in the fountains
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St Malo at Sunset & High Tide...

Low tide on the promenade.


Troy braves the breakers at high tide...

St Malo

(S-O-P-H-I-A upside down: learning to write her name in the sand)

Refusing to let go of her Dora bucket.

The old homes on the promenade of St Malo - the architecture was amazing! Eye candy...

Looking for rocks with the bucket. Surprisingly Sophia was very disappointed with the beautiful soft sand beaches. She was looking for rocks to throw - silly girl.
Sophia & Troy laughing in the wind, and a lot of wind there was...

St Malo has some of the lowest tides in Europe, we think the water went out at least 1/2 mile from the town boardwalk.

More Mt St Michel

Le Mt St Michel

We spent a wonderful rest of the week in the Brittany area near Mt St Michel and in St Malo. We were thinking we would spend a day at Mt St Michel, and the rest of the time on the beach, but we seemed to have gale force winds most of the days, and nights, so our time on the beach was a little limited.

The high tide approaching the parking lot. (check out where the busses are!)

It was amazing driving off the highway, and seeing the shadow of the Abbey almost 15 miles away. It just kept getting bigger & clearer the closer we got. Definately a highlight trip, even Sophia was excited to be there (although she refers to it as the "Good Knight Castle").

Sophia in the cloisters.

Munich Round 2

Sophia in her new Duckie bathrobe provided by the hotel... She LOVED it & LOVED going swimming so she could wear it!

Sunday afternoon we spent biking thru Munich again, and poor Sophia fell asleep in the seat on the back of the bike. Somehow we managed to transfer her into my arms, where she slept for the next hour or so. It's been years since she has slept in our arms, it was wonderful...

But no apartment to be found in Munich. Troy is going to look at a few more when he is there this week, and then we will see.

Update on the Zs

As you can see there are a lot of new posts for tonight. We are heading out tomorrow for an interesting week, so there won't be any updates for a while.

Sophia & I are taking our first flight alone together to Munich to meet Troy, where we will spend the weekend, and then do some house hunting on Monday & Tuesday. Have we mentioned that we are moving there? The big change takes place in September & it looks like another 2 years in Europe.


By the way, Munich was rated the number 1 most liveable city in the world in the IHT this past week.


When we return we are heading down to Mt St Michael, a location that has been on our short list since we moved to France. We plan on seeing the rock, and then sitting on the beach the rest of the weekend. A little down time before the international travel begins...

See you soon!

Blowing Bubbles at the Eiffel Tower

Bubbles at the Tower
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Sophia sings 70s ads

Sophia singing the 70s ads
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