Missy's Travels: Adventures at La Bergerie

I'm having a great time living and working on the farm, officially named La Bergerie. The family is great (wife, husband and three kids), the scenery is beautiful, and I enjoy the work we do during the week. However, that's not what this post is about. I promise I'll write about the daily routine soon, but this post is about what we've done this weekend.

Last night we had a big bonfire which lasted for hours and was good fun. Today was quite an adventure - we went to a small lake for a picnic and swimming, but it's off the beaten path. In order to get there we had to bike and/or walk a few kilometers. I ended up in the walking group, and John (husband/father) decided we should take a shortcut through the woods. A quick, easy shortcut ended up being an hour of hiking through waist-high fields, and boggy marshes and forests. I actually had a great time hiking through this wilderness (with two adults, two Great Danes, and a three-year-old toddler), but if I'd known what I was in for I wouldn't have worn flip flops. We arrived at the lake intact, albeit covered in mud and scratches on our legs.

The afternoon was spent lounging around - eating, reading, playing games, swimming, etc. Around 6 pm, a man yelled at us to get off his property. I noticed him looking at us from time to time, but he never came near us until this outburst when he threatened to call the gendarmerie. We had no idea the lake was private property...the family had been there before and never been told off. We quickly packed up our things and took off! Our route back to the farm was more mundane but also exciting- we took roads the entire way, but we shared the road with racing cyclists. I thought perhaps it was a stage of the Tour de France, but alas it was just a local race.

This evening I played wall-ball with Jacob for a while. We started out keeping score and following the (somewhat ambiguous) rules, but after a while we were just trying to see who could kick the ball the hardest, fastest and farthest. It's more fun like that anyway.