Vizille, Museum of the Revolution

Vizille is an old town about 30 minutes from where we live. It is mostly famous for its castle, a meaningful place in french history because it hosted an important meeting that triggered the french revolution.

By Pierre Bona - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8481814

The castle has been turned into a museum and is now open to the public. It contains a very large collection of art pieces focused on the french revolution. Outside the castle is a large park and a free range reserve of deer and other species of animals.

It is pretty amazing that they let people visit this castle for free. It is huge and they let us go pretty much in every room, and even on the balconies. The boys loved the stairs and balconies the best.

with Grand-Papa

a deer intrigued by the visitors

Fall season means there are plenty of leaves to collect and play with. William made a bouquet for me.

 in front of our house

This kid is such a lady killer

Another Sunday Walk in nature

November 2015

I never want to take all this for granted:

Happy kids, nature

Family

Pumpkin carving and a Sunday walk

November 2015

With all these parties, we didn’t have a chance to carve a pumpkin for Halloween... so we did that one Sunday afternoon in November, with Jade.

It’s a love dementor

I love our Sunday walks, especially in the fall. It’s a real blessing living here.

There are plently of wild animals around here ;)

They will run you over and eat all your food but you’ll still want to keep them...

 

My happy place: surrounded with moutains and my loves

Halloween Church Party

October 2015

We’re probably a little too crazy about halloween in our family... but I’m sure this phase won’t last forever, so I want to take advantage of it while the boys are into it.

There are a lot of kids in our primary, a lot of boys, a lot of energy...

 We recycled the "bat" idea that we did with all the cousins (not a great idea, the wings kept breaking off) :

And the kids decorated their own candy bag:

Then they played games:

 Some were unintended (and not tolerated very long):

And of course there was candy... lots of it.

Halloween Cousinfest

October 2015

 Since we moved to Revel, my aunt and I have made it a tradition to organize a Halloween party for the children in the family who come here on vacation. The kids look forward to it every year now and we can’t disappoint them. This year we had 14 kids, all cousins or second cousins.

Instead of decorating cookies this year, they made bloody fingers (out of sausages, ketchup and tortillas), ghosts (meringue and black icing) and bats (oreos and candy eyes).

Then there was a treasure hunt around the house, with clues to find, crypted messages to decode and various tasks to perform.

The crew (missing Elise and Constance)

And of course there was candy...

Another success and new memories created!