Just regular folks.

Edda and sheep. We went to a sheep farm in the Alps owned by friends of Cindy and Patrice. It was really, really hot. We had a lunch of lamb which was cooked on a spit over an open fire.

Monty – this was Ruby’s best friend from Austin. He lives in France now and is looking lovely.

Leander, who is so handsome at 3 months old. We met Diana and Andreas through Cindy in Austin. Andreas spent the past two years at Kellogg getting his MBA and now is in the process of moving to Munich to work for McKinsey.

Here we are back at Clara’s house. This was the best part of Edda’s trip. She was thrilled to spend an hour chasing this poor kitten.

Edda and kitten – again.

I am going back to DC this weekend to clean up the house waiting for you folks for the family re-union. Also, I will take a couple of Mainland Chinese with me to see DC. Will be back to Pittsburgh on Sunday. Have a nice weekend everyone.

It was so hot today… We left Ben and Johanna at the hotel (again!) and went sightseeing. We went to a castle near Evian. Here is where we bought some wine.

Vince playing in a fountain in downtown Evain-les-Bains.

Vince eating French hot dog. This meal, I ordered entirely in French. I did pretty well with speaking French during this trip, pulling verbs out of my brain and dusting them off. Not to shabby, I think. French hot dogs are hilarious. They take a baguette and shove them on a stick and make a hole in the middle. Then they squirt catsup into them and then shove the hot dog into the hole.

It was pretty hard to feed Edda during the week. We really had no kitchen and since dinner was served at 8 pm, she was pretty much ready for bed then. We had her living on avacados, tofu (which I had brought from the US in hermetically sealed boxes that don’t require refridgerations), bananas and every once in a while, we’d have a meal of scrambled eggs. She was pretty excited to get home and eat other things.