We started off our french adventure with a pretty weird day... Jules slept from 7:00-11:00 on Sunday night, woke up at 11:00pm, and then went back to sleep around 3:00am. He woke up again at 11:00am on Monday morning, and we officially started our day-- with all three of us feeling more than a little wonky.
After doing an initial grocery shop (I'd forgotten that one of my greatest pleasures is shopping for food in France. Even the most basic french grocery store
smokes a
Fairway Market by a million miles!!!) we decided we'd just cruise around and explore. What is incredible about rural France is that while you're just "cruising around", you can drive by a sign pointing for a medieval city, and when you arrive, you discover a
perfectly preserved picturesque town with a cute cafe with a courtyard full of children's toys, enchanted flower-filled walkways, the location where
Chocolate was filmed, AND the
candy maker that
produces the crazy flavored mints you
buy at Fairway for $8.00! So-- that was a pretty big hit, and a happy coincidence if ever I met one.
And then after a little snooze, we went and explored the local park, where we discovered Julian's
FAVORITE THING, a river where he can throw rocks. John and I practiced skipping rocks and Jules perfected his pitch, and all was right with the world. Now that we know where to find a river and a playground, we've pretty much ensured that this vacation is going to be a success!
And the best news... Jules slept through the night last night, so we're really in business today!
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