Ivy still prounounces "vacation" as "vuh-cation." One of her favorite expressions, when trying to convince us to do something we normally wouldn't do (like stay up late), is: "Come on! It's vacation!"
I enjoyed taking a few days off from journaling. We were up in the back country behind Nice, not really that far away but it felt like a different world. No cars, no people, just the occasional dog barking in the distance and the regional train passing a few times a day.
Mostly we enjoyed our friend's home: playing ping pong, jumping on the trampoline, playing with their Staffordshire Terrier Rusty, lounging in hammocks, going on walks to pick figs and blackberries.
We took an excursion to a nearby mountain river. Normally the water is a clear turquoise, but we went the day after a big rain storm. Alas, it was completely muddy so we couldn't swim and jump into the pools of water like we normally would. (We swam, but very tentatively since we couldn't see more than a few centimeters deep!)
We headed back to Nice mid-day today. On our way home, we picked up an old armoire door with a beveled mirror. It was the perfect size for the shallow closet we're building around our circuit breaker. Just a new coat of paint and a custom-built frame, and we'll have a beautiful and functional way to hide the electricity! And only 35 Euros...
Eric, Zari, and I put in a good afternoon's work. They were installing drywall around the sewer stack, while I standed and mudded. I'm already on the 3rd bucket and still have so much more left to do.
We're watching Baya again for a few more days.
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