Les Scènes du Week-end {18}

How fun is a four-day weekend?

Mine sure was.

Thursday, as you know, was Bastille Day & a reunion with old friends.

{By the way, don't forget to enter my first-ever Frenchie giveaway!}

Friday FQ & I attended Musilac, 

an outdoor music festival in Aix-les-Bains, a town near Annecy.

There were crowds {30,000 people!}, a lot of sun, some beer, 

enormous line-ups for the Jiffy Johns & lots of great music, of course.

Saturday we were expected in Pommiers for lunch.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem, 

as it only takes an hour-and-a-half to drive there.

However, when you re-live your youth at a music festival
& don`t go to bed until 3:00 a.m.,

it's not that easy to be on the road at a decent time.
Ooof.

Luckily, we spent the rest of the weekend relaxing 
& visiting with my belle-famille.

The guest of honour was my nephew Arthur,

who lives in NYC but is back in France for the summer.

On Saturday, it was warm & sunny, so we hit the pool.

On Sunday, it was miserable & rainy, so we hit the cinema.

The boys went to see Harry Potter
& I took Juliette to see Kung Fu Panda 2.

So, to sum up the four-day weekend:

Friends & fireworks & festivals.

Pool & pandas.

Excellent stuff.

floral festival-goers (this is NOT us!)

music + ice cream + beer tent + sunglasses = happy husband

pool boys

home-made tiramisu

the village gardening committee (which my father-in-law belongs to) keeps Pommiers looking lovely

 rainy Sunday = perfect Monopoly Junior weather

Martin loves his grand-père

the church in Pommiers where we got married nearly two years ago

 planter made of an old vélo = genius

cousins, country road, rainbow!!!