#FatpantsFrance 2016

Oh my goodness!  I am nearly a month behind on my blog posts!  Life has been fun but crazy!  The biggest event in this past month was my trip to France!  I was lucky enough to fly to Paris where I met up with 6 of my very best friends from Stockholm!  We then took a train to the western part of France where I showed them our old stomping grounds before we spent the next four days at my favorite place on earth, The French Dining School!

My French friends, Valerie and Sabine, joined us in Vannes for dinner

Even though my luggage was lost for 3 days, our reserved rental car was nowhere to be found, my credit card wouldn't work because they refused to believe that I was in France, even though I had had it noted on my account earlier that week, and... my camera and iPad were stolen.... Nothing was going to get me down and we had a FABULOUS time!

Just ONE angry scream to get it all out of my system

We got up each morning for a long walk in the French country side before hitting the cooking for the next 4 hours.

We cooked, we learned, we laughed, we ate, we drank and then we did it all some more!  So much fun!

In between eating the lunch we had prepared and preparing the evening meal, I drove us to some different parts of Brittany to show off "my France" to these well-traveled women.  Everyone loved it and we only wish that our time was longer.

On Wednesday evening, we prepared and ate, yet another huge meal before celebrating our "graduation"!

Thursday morning was the time for my friends to head back to Stockholm while I took the train to Bordeaux to meet Josh.  Josh had been working in Bordeaux earlier in the week but he took Friday off so that we could spend a wonderfully, lazy, long weekend in that beautiful weekend.  Unfortunately, the weather was a bit rainy and my camera was long gone, so my pictures from Bordeaux are limited.  But, we had a great time and because we have both been there before to see the sights, we really just walked miles and miles around the city in between meals, wine and coffee breaks!

Perfect!

Of course, when we flew back to the real world on Sunday night, it was time to hit the ground running as usual.  We had work while Max had school and then the weekend was to be centered around Quincy and Calvin.  Quincy performed in his first college stage production!  He had the role of Lane in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Calvin, Josh and Grandma drove down to watch him and apparently he did a great job.  I got slammed with the stomach flu and 12 days later, am just starting to shake it.  Ugh!  Here is a nice review about the play however... Quincy's part starts at 16:30.

I did manage to rally long enough to meet Josh and Calvin in Indianapolis to see him receive his Indiana Academic All-star award!  A very big honor! 

Since that time, it has been my recuperation (and whining) period while Max has school, track practices and track meets and we all prepare for Max's Confirmation!