Halloween!

At long last, we managed to celebrate Halloween the right way! We decorated the house and invited some of Evie's and our friends over for a not very spooky, but still fun time. Our family theme was 'Roaches.'


And Jim was a very stylish can of roach spray:


With our spooky decorations:

And our inviting jack o lantern:

we were swamped with trick or treaters! We ran out of candy!

Our friends got into the spirit of things, too.







It was a fun Halloween, the likes of which we haven't experienced in England! I already know what we're going to be next year.

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I'm afraid this blog is dying a slow death, but I'm still struggling to keep it alive! The combination of exhaustion, lack of free time and a very active baby is making it very hard to keep up with the blog and make it interesting. I'm trying to figure out a system for updating at least once a week without fail...stay tuned!

France: the finale!

We decided to visit Uzes again on the Wednesday market day. It was rainy.


We drank a lot of coffee and then wandered through a beautiful 'patisserie' and candy shop.


And were entertained by Evie's antics with the sticker we stuck on her head.


The next day was my birthday and we went to Arles, which is where Van Gogh spent a lot of time and is a very artsy and funky town.

There was another really old bull ring:

And a really old Roman Amphitheater:


And beautiful architecture throughout:




That night, Jim made me a birthday cake. It was a great day and a great week and a great finale to a fun time.