French apartment renovations, Day 696: Pont de la Cerise

I don't think we've gone on family hike/excursion yet (short of skiing) this year! We've done some with grandparents and a few kids, but not all together. We decided to remedy that, so we returned to Pont de la Cerise, a 30 minute hike down a canyon to a beautiful river and natural water slides/chutes. There's an old medieval bridge spanning one of the narrow gorges.

Here are a few pictures from today. The kids found some clay depsoits along the riverbank and enjoyed adorning themselves.
 

It's really late so the video will have to wait until tomorrow. But it was an idyllic day...well, at least until the hike back up, when we ran out of water and I had to help a very tired/grumpy/thirsty Ivy make it back up. We had lots of bickering in the car, which miraculously ended once we found a public water fountain and refilled all of our water bottles (about 15-20 minutes into the drive home).

A friend who we babysat for yesterday treated us out to ice cream tonight! She offered to pay the kids for their help, but I suggested paying them in ice cream instead. Zari said, "This is defintiely better than getting paid in money!" I had cacao sorbet and peach sorbet. I haven't gone out for ice cream in...years. I'm too frugal, to be honest, since one ice cream cone costs the same as a container of ice cream bought in a store (of course, they're not comparable!).

Eric mentioned that in our upcoming family reunion in Canada, the kids are going to be part of a huge group of cousins. He called it a "gang" and the kids thought it was awesome. So Inga drew Ivy a "cousin gang" tattoo.