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June 12, 2005
Côte de Brouilly
Nathalie's friend Anne-Catherine had invited us to a sort of extended housewarming get together this weekend. We left Saturday after lunch since Tim had school that morning.
Anne-Catherine has moved into her new appartment west of the center of Lyon up behind the hill last September, and this weekend had friends and family come to celebrate it. Nathalie went to school with Anne-Catherine in Strasbourg. We'd not seen her often in the last few years, but did have her over once for lunch in Barraux.
Since her apartment was too small to house everyone, she rented a gîte in the middle of the Côte de Brouilly half an hour north of Lyon. There must've been 20 of us. The weather cooperated. We were outside until supper time and even after until late Saturday night, then all day today until coming back home. Nathalie enjoyed it a lot, and the kids had a good time, too. They were so occupied they even more or less behaved themselves.
Tim managed to stay up Saturday night until we went to bed at 1:45 am Sunday morning. He was nevertheless up at before 8 am. Unfortunately on the way back, although the children managed to sleep a little in the car, it was not only too warm, but we mistakenly drove right into the traffic jam outside the tunnel de l'Epine where they're doing roadwork all summer. It took us nearly an hour to cover 3 km. Radio announcers claimed it was even worse on the Chambéry side.
We're home, but it may be tough to get them up for school tomorrow morning. It's almost 10 pm and nobody's sleeping, yet.
Posted by Mark at June 12, 2005 09:49 PM