First Week of September

Hello! This is Sean. Saturday, Sep 5 was a gorgeous day in Geneva. Bright, sunny, and 16 degrees Celsius. In apparent celebration, we witnessed the start of a hot air balloon festival right outside our living room window (pictured above). We then had a nice family outing to the Rue de Rive farmers market. On the walk home, we stopped for hot chocolate and a lemon crepe at a little shop near Le Jet D'eau. Also pictured above is our annual first day of school photo, in our new "backyard" (see first day stories in past blogs).

Hi! This is Rachel. The video of the alpine horns has been posted on YouTube. Please check it out and come back and tell us what you think right here on the blog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1wU3xXFAQ.
Enjoy!

Alpine horn players at farmers market in Carouge

Here is our second post, by Sean: Here is a picture of 3 alpine horn players who were entertaining folks at the Saturday farmer's market in Carouge (a small village in Geneva). We bought a lot of local cheese (5 kinds), honey, berries, olives, plums, crepes, pasta, etc. There were many places around the market to sit down for coffee, tea, wine, mohitos, etc. And icecream, of course.

We also had the excellent cultural experience of explaining to the local police that our battery was dead, and we needed a jump, all using creative variations of basic level french vocabulary, and english words with a hopeful french accent.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7PFdLHODA to see the video of it!