Well, if it isn't obvious now that we don't keep up with blogging I don't know when it will be! Stephanie writes daily experiences in her journal so no worries that well forget stuff.
So we've been in Angioville, Normandy,France for the past 1.5 weeks. It's beautiful out here! A very small village with one church, a town hall and a restaurant (that never seems to be open)! We can cycle (in Europe they don't say "biking, or bike into town; rather " cycle") into two slightly bigger towns, Lessay and Le Haye de Puites. I always say "Puites" wrong so that's a fail when I go into town. But apparently I pronounce Bonjour wrong too..and also recently said Gracias to the bartender here...so that was embarrassing. We did however make it to town in time for D Day, which was awesome! We didn't see Obama or the Queen but we did see some very cool reenactments and learned a lot about the invasion.
We've both tried to learn french while were here. Shane is better with his 3 years of French under his belt...I've learned "I don't speak French..I'm sorry...do you speak English?" If they don't we just mime at each other and point at things...I was trying to figure out a way to act out a bus and a train. That didn't work out. Moral of the story? Google translate is awesome.
Our host family is great! Gary and Nicola treat us like family! They have an interesting story too. They moved to France ten years ago to have a slower paced life than they did in England. A year later they bought a house from the 1400's that was split into two houses. Theve turned one side into their house and the other into a B&B. The pictures of before and after are amazing! Apparently the French love wallpapering everything! Garry and Nicola are also in the proccess of building a new house from scratch which is a very daunting task. We helped a little with installing some of the installation but work is slow as its hard to find time to head out to the new house. If anyone wants to help with any part of the house Garry and Nicola would love to host you.
We've done some work with the goats. We've both learned how to milk Dorothy the goat. Its very hard! We always need Nicola to help us. We've also mucked out all their stalls (clean out all the hay laid down in their beds over the winter which is saturated in pee and poo.) So that was gross. Actually disgusting. We had said before this trip we wanted to have a few goats..we've gotten the true experience of what its like...we haven't discussed since if we still want goats. ;) It has been very cool to get to know the goats, they all have a very unique personallity and are very entertaining.
After finishing up the goats stalls we've been takling the weeds in the gardens. Crabgrass is over here too..and its just as horrible. But there's also these plants called Stinging Nettle..if they touch any part of you there's small needles that come off and sting you. We had them all over our arms..couldn't find anything to help the sting. So we slept like that, woke up the next morning and did some more weeding...only then to find out the plant that grows next to the stinging nettle is the "antidote"! We quickly rubbed the leaves all over our arms and immediate relief! Amazing what God put in nature to protect us...if only we took the time to learn about Mother Nature.
We tried to go into Brittany over the weekend and see Mont Saint Michel but the nations rail systeam is down due to strikes, so whenever the trains start running again we will make another attempt. Hopefully the strike ends soon as we hope to head to Paris in a week or so!
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