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Lily 9 Months

4th of July

We did the usual 4th of July celebration in Provo, I ran the 10K in the morning, then we went to the parade, came home and went swimming at the Suncrest pool then back down to Provo for the Stadium of Fire! Fun Day!

Firsts

Sophie learned to ride her bike with no training wheels this week and has it mastered. Lily sat up on her own this week and has it mastered, it's been a full week of firsts.

Lily 8 Months

Lily turned 8 months old while we were in France. It was about a week later when we were home that I got her 8 month pictures taken. Here are a few.

The trek back to Paris and a stop in Vezelay

Probably our last post for this trip. Drove from Lyon to Paris with a stop in Vezelay in between. Vezelay is an amazingly beautiful Cistercian abbey. It's very simple inside, devoid of any real ornamentation other than the striped stones used in the barrel arches in the ceiling. It sprinkled on us a little while there, but really it was quite pleasant. The cloud cover made for uniform light that created a surreal atmosphere in the woodlands surrounding the abbey. We'd actually been to Vezelay some time ago but it just didn't look familiar on the drive there. We'd thought the abbey was in more of a flat environment and perched on a hill and that we'd approached it from more an autoroute. This time we approached from another side, through some beautiful villages set in the rolling hills surrounding the abbey and it wasn't until we practically got to the front door of the abbey that we really recognized it.

 

Tomorrow we'll go to Disneyland again. Sophie's been counting down the days. So have I. We're just hoping the rains hold off. Just saw on the news that it's been the coldest Spring in 50 years in the UK. Doesn't surprise me when we think that we've had two days of full sun on this trip and two days of full, hard, relentless rain, and every other day has been off and on rain. Essentially there's been a low pressure system just parked over France since we got here. Sucks. So, again, hoping for better weather tomorrow. We'll see.

 

 

St Remy

This may be our last post until we get home, tomorrow we make the 5-6 hour drive back to Paris, we may stop along the way if we see something cool. Then Friday is Disneyland and we fly home Saturday. Anyway today we spent most of the day in St Remy, there was another market going on and we saw a few of the same vendors. Picked up some more fruit to eat along the way and explored the town. Then on to Rousillion where we explored for an hour then the rain started so we got in the car and drove 2 hours to our hotel. Anyway here are some pictures from the day.