This year, we were lucky enough to celebrate our anniversary with another beautiful October day. This time, though, we were relaxing in France, in a gîte that my parents rented for a month. It was a gorgeous location for what turned out to be a wonderful anniversary.
We started out the day with our special tradition of a photo shoot to add to our album of anniversary pictures. Each year we try to find a cool location and just have fun taking pictures. It's really neat to see ourselves grow and change from year to year and it'll be even cooler when we have an album with 50 years of photos in it.
This year, Wesley got to join in for a few photos.
We then spent the day going to a goat farm to see how chèvre is made, and to pet goats (the real reason to visit a goat farm!), and then spending a little time in the town of Rocamadour for lunch.
And then, THEN, the best part:
On the way home, Gamma and Papà told us that they were taking Wes duty for the remainder of the day! They had already said they would babysit while we went to dinner, but a whole free afternoon before that? Jackpot! And they're good, responsible babysitters, right?
Hmm, well... they were free babysitters, anyway..
We luxuriated in a long walk sans bébé, and then an episode of America's Next Top Model before dinner.
And then we got pretty and headed to La Belle Etoile restaurant in La Roque Gageac. La Roque Gageac is a really pretty little town on the Dordogne river and we left early enough so that we could walk a little, take some pictures, walk a little more.
And then, dinner...
was magnifique!
I had a langoustine ravioli and then cod with vegetables in a pea and coconut sauce, and Ben had foie gras (I know, animal cruelty, etc etc) with an onion chutney and then duck with a citrus glaze.
And the best part? Desserts!
And not just because I love dessert, but because these were really well done. A trilogie de chocolat with cinnamon ice cream for me, and a millefeuille de fraises with a perfect lavender sauce for Ben. Oh so good.
*Note: I hate taking pictures in restaurants because I always feel très tacky, but this wonderful restaurant had plenty of more obnoxious tourists than us, and being tacky is practically a requirement for American tourists abroad so we figured what the heck. We were very discrete about it. And we were much less obnoxious than the Canadians at the table next to us who were loudly discussing what "une tranche de lotte" was (it's monkfish). They were loud. And funny. We tried not to giggle at them, but we couldn't help ourselves.
After dinner we walked a bit more and then went back to the house and thought about how great life is, how blessed we are, and how nice it is to have good babysitters.
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We are very responsible babysitters! Please note that we have a designated baby holder.
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