day deux:

day two:

presenting our little village:

watched the sunrise. like from dark all the way to light, couldn't sleep and it was sooo pretty.

fell head over heels for little french speaking children: four playing around the clothesline in their backyard which opens up to a field, three next door riding trikes with mom, two playing tag in the grocery store, and one who counted to two (yes i know that much french) over and over again as she stole a cracker from the bakery in the grocery store.

laughed with devin until i cried-good tears. oh so therapeutic.

drove to ikea to get loaded up on supplies, and got lost. (while loving it here, i'm realizing many blessings about the USofA, like a GPS and a cell phone... and i'll stop there... sigh) after i got over missing out on our ikea visit, we ended up going to carrefour this time for food- and i was in utter shock at how difficult it is to grocery shop, like serious grocery shop, in a foreign land. i already am a slow grocery shopper, but now i'm crawling. it took two hours, patience, good eyes on how to copy cat for the scale in the produce section, more money than in the USofA, and out of it all we got out of it was food for half a week and laughed at in the checkout stand. huge incentive to learn the language, like enormous.

worked today, amazed what engineering and human machines can do. i feel like i'm living in the tv show, "it's a wrap." fascinating.

turned on the blow dryer for the first time, and blew the fuse in our converter-good thing we bought two. first time i went to europe i singed my hair to the root with my straightener-good thing it was short. you would think i'd learn.

discovered, on accident, a peanut butter which has the slightest resemblance of maple syrup mixed with peanut butter, which takes me back to waffles at my house as a kid. HEAVEN.

just two down, and i feel like i've been here for ages.