The Cote d'Azur

This week on the French Riviera has been full of amazing sights and scenery.  So many sights and so much scenery, in fact, that I already have trouble keeping it all straight as I flip through the photos of our adventures (quite an old-fashioned image that conjures up, huh?).  Over the past week, we have visited Nice, Ile Sainte Marguerite, Antibes, Cap d'Antibes, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Cap Ferrat, Eze, and La Turbie.  Thanks to Tom and Rick, we've enjoyed many beautiful hikes, charming towns, crashing waves, awesome museums, and late, late lunches (OK, we didn't exactly plan it that way, but with all the sights and scenery, lunch usually didn't happen before 3:00).

We saw two of our favorite museums of the entire trip this week, the Picasso Museum in Antibes, and the Chagall Museum in Nice.  The visits to these museums inspired artistic musings in all of us.  It remains to be seen if those inspirations will ever translate to canvas, but it's nice to dream.  As Chagall said, "In art as well as in life, anything is possible, provided there is love."  Luckily, we have a lot of love, because some of us (Lauren and Tom in particular) will really need it if we're going to create some art.

This morning, we leave for the Grand Canyon du Verdun, where we will enjoy some hiking and green space.  Hopefully, we won't be enjoying any snow, but with the weather as it's been, it is hard to predict.  Our next two weeks will find us moving around quite a bit, seeing many sights, visiting some old friends in Toulouse, making our way to Paris.  Internet availability will be spotty, but we will post when we can!  In the meantime, here are some photos of our adventures over the last week.