Summer vacation

We spent a great vacation this summer in France. Odd for me, I don’t know what to write about it.

It was just great. Relaxing. Fun. Rejuvenating is perhaps the best word I can find.

The first part of the vacation was spent with Paul, Katherine and Dylan - our local Seattle relatives. That middle part was spent with our east coast relatives: Christine and Doug, Nicole and Derek, and my dad, Red. The last week was with the inlaws: Karen and Molly, and Carl and Ginny.

Most of the time was spent in Brittany, the northwest part of France. It was July so it was hot in all of France. It was a heat wave, canicule in French. We were near the coast so there was a breeze often enough. The heat was bearable for all but a few days.

Brittany is very beautiful. Inland, it is rural France, filled with farms, old towns, etc. At the coast, it is very flat with sections of beach and rocky coast line.

Really nothing is needed from me to describe it. You can look it up. I’m not saying anything new.

We saw my good friend, Yannick, who was the kindergarten teacher for both Nathalie and Marc at the French Immersion School of Washington. Yannick is a good friend. I miss seeing him more often. I got the chance to play golf with him, Doug and Red. It was a good day but not a great round of golf for most of us. It is always a compromise to play rented clubs at a new course. The course was nice though the drought and heat made it a bit of a challenge to figure out. And, there is plenty of water on the course so we lost a lot of balls in hazards.

I played golf with Yannick another time, too, which I enjoyed for the solitude and chance to chat.

Pets

I don't really get pets. Can anyone explain to me the role of pets in their lives?

Why does anyone want a pet?