Retourner

Our main focus while in Michigan was completing the gazebo in Mary Kay Davis Park (named for Ron's mother in 1999) in tribute to Rachel Jacobs.  The park is right near Gilda and John's home.  Gilda officiated at the dedication ceremony in 1999, knew Ron's parents, and met Ron at that time.

Upon our return to Amboise, Lotte and Alexis picked us up at the train station.

AirBnB selected their cave home as one of the most intriguing of all in the world.

Christiane and Franco invited us over for an Italian meal.  Franco is from Tuscany and makes his own pasta.  He promised to teach Barbara how to do it!

Then our neighbor Coco, who loves to fish in the river, came by with a plate filled with friture de la Cher (fried fish from the river Cher).

Finally, Gabrielle and Charles invited us to a terrific joyful party for Fête des Crepes, which was just before Lent.  20 guests from the neighborhood partook of the enticing offerings.

Enthusiastic Gabrielle

Charles has a joie de vivre beyond compare (a retired Air France pilot)

A plethora of appetizers

Marie and Lucas

Sylvain and Coco

In addition to the culinary offerings, we all sang to the music

 

Who has 20 dining room chairs?

First table course, hot crepes filled with legumes et sauce

Irrepressable Monique

Second course - crepes with confiture

Final - crepes flambé with beaucoup liquor

Valentines Day

Yes it's that time of year again.

Joan decided to have a dinner for Jack's birthday on Valentine's Day.  

The ladies surround the birthday boy.

Barbara hosted a holiday lunch for a non English speaking group of neighbor ladies.

Hostess gifts the guests brought along

Monique made these herself

Since it has snowed rarely and briefly in our 4 years here, we understood this picture about Paris asking "Will it snow soon?"

Then, lo and behold we awoke this morning to a very light covering on our flower garden

Lola decided to hunker down when she went outside and saw the unusual snow

By 10am it was all gone.  It is so light and short a duration, it hardly counts as a snow.  Winter is so mild that even during the snow shower, it was 34 degrees.