Recent adventures

We have been having a lot of fun doing a lot of things but haven't had much time to write about them since we have no internet in the house. So, here is a little recap of some of our adventures....

We went to a harvest festival in nearby Latresne and ended up having some wine, playing with new toys, and eating tuna and salmon sashimi with bread. On the way home we passed a farmstand with a pretty hilarious name, which has become my new motto:




Owen gave himself a prune goatee:




We also went to the Dune de Pyla, the biggest pile of sand in Europe. From the top you separate the Atlantic ocean from a big pine forest that was planted by Napoleon. Owen cralwed around on the sand like a locoman. We went with Franck and Valentine and also had a tasty picnic on a nearby beach.




Another time we went to Saint Emilion, one of the famous wine towns in the area. A very pretty place full of grapes, people selling fancy wine for a lot of cash (the most expensive bottle we saw advertised was a 1945 Petrus for 8300 Euros), and castles. Owen got to see his first dungeon (untiil he turns 18 and isn't a minor anymore, at least)!



We checked out a wine cave that had some impressive slime growth since the 1995 harvest was bottled. This was the Clos des Menuts




Afterwards, we bought some really good cheese, a baguette, and some foie gras and has a little picnic in a vineyard right next to town. Diagnosis: delicious!





Then we went for a little walk and then drove home to Floirac via the scenic route. That's all for now -- more stories to come. I'll leave you with this super cute photo of Owen and Mommy among the grapes: