Bournagain

After 10 years of living in France we had never seen the Mediterranean, so as a belated wedding anniversary present to ourselves we jumped on a cheap flight and zipped down to Marseille for the weekend. We had heard that Marseille was just a big city like any other. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you just need to know where to look. It was a visual feast – hard to describe, so I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, although the colour of the water in the photos goes nowhere near the captivating blue of the Med in real life. In order, the Calanque de Sormiou, Cassis, Vallon des Auffes, the Le Panier quarter, the Old Port…

Today we have been back in France for 2 weeks. About time I got back to the blog. But before getting into anything more consequential, I just have to share this photo with you. We spent two days in Hong Kong on our way back to France, and, wanting to give the children as authentic an experience as possible, we ate one of the meals in a local noodle bar. Very little English was spoken. The facial expressions speak volumes about how our children deal with culture shock.

Needless to say, the other patrons found us very entertaining.

Fargo

Don’t know if you ever saw that ghastly film called “Fargo” – well in real life it’s quite a fun place. We discovered this when we spent the day here with our friends and their six children. More photos at Flickr (click on the photo).

It’s already been a week since we left Nantes. We are enjoying every moment of being back in the US , visiting friends from when we lived here to years ago at Bethany Fellowship, Bloomington Minnesota. It was such a formative time in our lives, and it’s been great showing the children all the old haunts. Even after such a long absence, as we reconnect with old friends it’s almost like we never left.

Right now we are enjoying sub-zero temperatures and snow in Valley City, North Dakota. There are a few photos at Flickr – I will try and add to this regularly.