Vive la France!

Just returned to Rwanda after two and a half weeks in France! We're feeling healthy again and I think our stress index might have dropped a bit.

France: Chocolate for breakfast, wine with lunch, and cheese for dessert -- what's not to like about this country? And what a great place to celebrate our first anniversary.

Here's the amazing place we stayed. Our new friends Rebecca and David have restored an old stone manor in Brittany, in the north-west of France. 15 minutes from the beach, surrounded by nothing but quaint quaint quaint. They've opened up the guest home to missionaries from their home church as a place of refuge -- we're not quite missionaries and we're not quite from their home church, but they welcomed us anyway and were the best of hosts.



We spent most of our time soaking in the countryside, reading, and recovering. The impressionists spent a lot of time in Brittany getting inspired and I can see why -- those haystacks Van Gogh painted really ARE that yellow (and all this time I thought he was a visionary).

Here's me at the westernmost point of France.



We headed to a local pub to watch France headbutt Italy at the World Cup finals (if you're reading from the US, the World Cup is a soccer tournament that everyone else in the world cares about. I think the US ignores it because there aren't enough commercial breaks in soccer.)

Here's Corrie cheering on the cyclists at the Tour de France! (France didn't cancel it this year even though Lance Armstrong isn't racing.)



Mont Saint Michel -- a church & small city built on an island you can only reach at low tide.



Then we spent the last few days with Corrie's childhood friend Florence in Paris.

Corrie and Monet's water lilies.