Peugeot 305

thought I'd include some pictures of our sweet Peugeot 305 wagon. Cute huh? The weaver's sold it to us for a mere 300€ - a steal for this piece of French history (although when I found out it takes leaded gasoline, meaning I have to ADD lead to the unleaded fuel I buy, the Peugeot lost a little of its charm... but not too much). Debbie's considering painting designs on it... we'll see if we actually get around to it. If you're considering coming to the Château as an intern, you will be allowed to drive this car! I'm sure that will help many of you who are on the fence as to whether to come or not.

Automatic Translation

If only I'd known they had automatic translation in France, I wouldn't have gotten so stressed out about not being able to make it to language study!

Rainy Sunday

Thought I'd post a few more pics, and some videos online today. It's about to rain, but hopefully it won't, since there are fireworks tonight, since tomorrow is a big holliday here (july 14th - wikipedia it if you don't know). We're going over to the Burgesses for a picnic this evening if the rain holds off.

We've got a big group here for a wedding - they started arriving on Thursday to prepare, and aren't leaving until tomorrow sometime. It's been a full 24 hour event, with many guests staying both Sat & Sun night. It's a couple from a church in Lyon (not the Grace Brethren one). Anyhow, seems to be going smoothly, aside from the cool weather and rain, which means people are inside a lot.

Pictures are of a smattering of things - the art exhibit / pizza baking fund raiser (unfortunately, I only took a couple of pictures of Debbie & our neighbor with their artwork, and none of them are that great). Some pictures of the work we're doing on the gatehouse - although nothing too pretty yet, just tearing stuff apart.

To see all the pics - click here: July Album

And here are some videos for you, just random ones from the past month or two

In the above video, Nadia demonstrates her hunting ability with a lizard. She's also brought in mice, and last night, a bat. She was VERY proud, and decided we needed woken up around 1:30am so she could present her trophy to us.

Notice how the middle of the steering wheel doesn't turn - cool huh? Actually, I don't like it very much, but it took me about 20 minutes to figure out how they did that (and I still don't know for sure, but I at least know how it COULD be done)

Very cool LCD speedometer in the C4, which just used daylight for the backlight during the day.

Pizza oven, during the pizza fund raiser / art exhibit in Saint Albain

Taking down some old vines, that have been slowly dying, and as they die, drooping down over the kitchen window. Micah took care of them last month.

A view of Mont Saint Michel, from the side by the Channel, when the tide is out. Very touristy, but very cool too.

Twisty roads in switzerland - unfortunatly, as any of you know who have tried to make video of cool/twisty/bumpy roads, it never looks as good as it does in real life. So just trust me, this was the narrowest twistiest mountain road I've ever been on (and probably one of the most fun). They had mirrors on several of the corners, so you coud see around, and most of the time if you met someone else coming the other way you'd have to back up to a spot where you could pass. Great drop offs along the edge too :) We spent about an hour on this road, just going up and up (we were right on the southern edge of the swiss alps).



enjoy!