April 16, 2008

• Breaking your routine

  I don't really like to break my routine to do things like vacation.  You know, exercise, diet, writing - wait did I say I had a writing routine?  no, but I want one.  When you go on vacation you mess all that up.  And then there are certain aspects of my routine I'm not looking forward to returning to, like work. 

  For our routine interruption we went to the French Riviera.  If that makes you hate me right now, maybe it will make you feel a little better that we took three kids with us.  We struggled with our french, took budget accommodations outside of anything worth seeing, and had difficulties learning how to get around, so it was a bit frustrating at first, but even when you can't exactly call it "fun", it is still a life broadening experience, that gets you out of your shell, and exposes you to knowledge and culture that you didn't have before, not to mention time with your family, which is always good, even when it isn't.    And eventually we did figure out the buses, got places, saw places and ate ice cream.  Here are some pictures.

  

  From the sky

  

  April isn't the warmest, but it was 70s the first day we were there so we visited the Mediterranean

  

  Gotta ride a carousel.  Cause we don't have those in the US of America.

  

  Fenoccio's 90 flavors of ice cream or something like that.  We tried as many as we could.

  

  French playgrounds are sometimes cool.

   

  But more dangerous.  Please come down now.

   

  (Our third) Wheel lost his first tooth in France.  The tooth Fairy brought him a Euro.

   

   

  Smile!  (Everyone's got a camera)

  

  A foggy day in La Turbie

  

  

  Look beyond the bush, that's Monaco.

  

  Roman ruins

  

  Just a roamin'

     

  This sign did nothing.  Watch where you walk!

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