Punkin's & Petunias

Thoroughly enjoying the autumn here in the Loire Valley. I know it is going to be hard to try and explain this, but: the light is actually different here. The sunshine looks whiter and purer, and I'm not just being poetic.

In fact, I looked it up and learned that many Impressionist painters moved to southern France for this very reason. Weird and beautiful.

We stumbled upon a chateaux that was having a county fair celebrating Autumn on their lawns - yeah! One lady was selling little bread cakes. Robbie and I split a fig cake, damn good. Also there was a cool display showing and naming the most beautiful vegetables I have ever seen.

Then we stopped at a field of wild flowers and stocked up. An amazing day!

The fam!

Well, today was pretty awesome. Some of the family arrive dans Paris via Las Vegas and headed down to the Loire Valley where Grammy and Gramps have been living for the past 5 months (don't you wish you're are as cool as them when you're in your 70's? Travellin' the globe, going on adventures.)

We took a train from Paris (about an hours ride) and met them all down there. A fun filled family reunion right here in France. We plan to see as many chateaux's as we can fit into our week here. But first up, G-ma and G-pa took us to: Le Parc des Mini-chateaux!!! If you haven't guessed, it's a theme park that has miniature models of all the chateauxs in the Loire Valley. I'm not joking.

http://www.mini-chateaux.com/anglais/presentation.htm

(the "view of the town" pic shown here, is indeed, a miniature.)