Alaska 2009

House Headache

Thought you'd like to see what we've been going through. Thank goodness we are nearing completion!

Hope all is well with all of you. Love Nancy

France Pictures

I've uploaded our pictures to the following site: http://ourfranceadventures.shutterfly.com/
the password is Faucon. (it is case sensitive)
I went a little crazy taking photos of the beautiful flowers and cool architecture~ sorry! Just skip through those. You can also order prints from here if you see any you want----
...maybe ....Carol and the Mime?

France

I hope this finds everyone doing well. We had a wonderful time in France.

I will include a few pictures and try to upload the rest to Snapfish or another sight.

We stayed in Carol's cousin's 400 yr old villa in the Rhone Valley of France. Our Villa was in the Village of Facuon. The view from our terrace was of Mount Vateaux, which still had snow on top of it. The Tour De France races over this mountain. We drove up as far as we could but they had the top of the mountain closed ( we assumed it was because of the snow)

Our villa had lots of levels and some low doorways so or heads were sore and scarred most of the week (Note the bandage and scabs below....slow learners!)

We rented a car (lovely limo affectionately named the mighty Picasso)

To acces the parking place for our villa you had to put your side mirrors in and pass through 2 tunnels( staying as close to the left wall as possible).

Our days consisted of adventures to other Villages for market days. It was amazing to see these quaint villages. (Skipper and I kept commenting that if felt like being in Epcot!)

Jeff Carol, Skipper and I went to Nice and Monaco one day. It was beautiful. They were setting up the bleachers for the Grand Prix that will race in Monaco in a few weeks.

It was a great week, and we thought of all of you often.

Meteor Crater

This weekend we went to see a big hole in the ground and had a good time. From what we learned today, there are about 150 meteor craters on the Earth, two in Australia, three in Russia and some in Africa and all over the place. This one looks huge but does not qualify for being the top 10 largest in the world. They have a museum next to the hole about different stuff about solar system, and other interesting science stuff.

"Gay" Time at the Heritage!!

We had a wonderful weekend in Hilton Head.

Brian Gay won the tournament. He is the Grandson of a good friend of Maw Maw and Paw Paw's. It was fun to follow someone we felt we had a connection with.

We all spent our days at the tournament and enjoyed dinner together in the evenings.

Holmes and his girlfriend Connor came on Thurs night. and stayed until Sun. We enjoyed having them with us.

Margaret had us for Brunch on Sat. morning, and in usual Margaret style, it was wonderful. Everyone looked so good. Mary, Margaret, Rex, Kip, Rob Rob, Emily...... and we met precious Robert (AKA Rob Rob Rob). He is so cute!

I'm sorry I don't have more pictures to share. We had one camera among us and no memory card for it. These 2 pictures were taken from our cell phones of Holmes and Connor @ Harbour Town after the tournament on Sat.

We are proud of our "walkers" in Jacksonville-- Great Job Stephanie!

House Flowers

This weekend we decided to take it easy. Marketa slept in both mornings. Getting up every morning at 5.30 am, it is nice to stay in bed a little bit longer on the weekends. Saturday we went to Recreational Equipment Incorporated, a store that sells everything for outdoor activities, such as hiking, biking, camping, water stuff, mountain climbing, etc. Frank has a life time membership back from 1980s, so he has a 20% discount on everything he buys. We got some cool stuff for hiking and camping. Then we went to Walmart. Then, we were trying to find a place where Frank can get a haircut but everywhere was about 30 minute wait time, so we decided that I can cut Frank's hair which I did this morning and I did a really good job. Today, I cleaned the house, Arizona is a dirty place - there is dust in the house all the time, and the two dogs are not really helping the situation either. The pictures with yellow flowers that are growing on the vines on our house. And the middle picture is Frank's garden project, we hope to have tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and we have pretty flowers.