We went to the park yesterday, and had fun on the playground and playing minigolf. One of the moms told me that this park is a good place to see friends from the school, and sure enough we did. Actually though, we see our school friends everywhere because this is such a small town. It's like a sea of tourists with school friends sprinkled in between. On the way home from the park yesterday, we took a wrong road and ended up in Lehon, 2 km away from home, but we had a lovely walk home along the Rance, and once she realized there was nothing anyone could really do for her but sympathize, the "pain" in Annika's leg seemed to disappear. However, then Annika appeared to have been stung by stinging nettle, complaining of a pricked finger (coincidence because Lauren touched this a few days ago), so then we ran into another mom from the school, and I was able to explain the cause for Annika's wailing ("elle s'est pique par l'ortie"...which I knew from the earlier incident) and that mom went straight to another plant, pealed the leaf off to reveal an wet inner leaf and rubbed it on Annika's finger. Miracle cure! I have to say that Annika did really well yesterday, considering she walked about 6-8 kilometers. Yah! Growing up is fun...I miss the babies, but seeing my kids get stronger and develop stamina is wonderful (not to mention the advantages for more fun walks).
The girls loved playing minigolf yesterday.
Fortunately, we ran into Malou at the park...she is one of the sweetest girls in Annika's class. Her parents own a gift shop up the street, and she has an equally sweet sister, Amelie, in Lauren's class (one of the group I fondly refer to as "the Gorillas"). Malou found a shell the other day in the playground, a tiny snail shell, and she presented it to me, "C'est pour vous". I will treasure it (and her) for as long as I can think of, friend for life. Also, she's wearing ladybug earrings here in this picture, which is a long and perhaps silly story, but still, ladybugs mean a lot to me.
Malou is so shy and polite, but after struggling with a few holes, she said, "j'espere gagner cette fois-ci", (I hope to win this time), and sure enough, she did that hole at par, better than Lauren and Annika. It's like Tiger Woods says, you have to visualize the win before you win. It was so cute they way the girls were working together and saying, "Bravo" to each other.
Louanne, Caroline and Annika at swimming class.
The Center square in Dinan
Happy Mother's Day!
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