Main Course
Today we went to Renne le Chateau for the vide granier..I got some books and a Boggle game and Yahtzee game in French but those you play the same in any language so it doesn't matter.. when we got home we went up to the Community lunch for the fete..I had a ball..there were about 250 folks gathered there at noonish for aperitif( wine, soft drink, beer, etc..) then at about 2 the salad came..and it was delicious..and cold..it was over 100 degrees under the tents of nylon so anything cool was welcome. If you like wine all you want is included with the lunch, but great icey water was there too. It was so hot that our plates were all heated lol.. after salad was a local dish like Paellas( I hope I spelled that right)only it was made with noodles and not rice.. well I am not much on octopus or mussels, but the taste was good...just a bit heavy for the type of heat we were having.. then about 3 came the cheese and at 4:30 the dessert and the Blanquette..a local wine that I will drink in small portions.. we did not stay for coffee..it had reached about 107 degrees and we needed to move the car to safer grounds before the partying began so we left. Some time after the main course was served we began to feel water flying... the water fights had begun..and it felt good to get caught in the line of fire! Also the "kids" were jumping in the fountain... and some newbys were being thrown in...a tradition that I escaped due to age and size I am sure LOL..It was so much fun to see all the families together, having fun.. most of the folks of all generations had grown up together, gone to school together and now gather once a year to have fun again...
After we left Michael and I went up in the mountains to find some cool...and came across a French resistance camp..way up in the mountains, on a trail that reminded me of Sherando before the hard surface road was put in...we drove up and up and up and I thought that surely there was no monument there and then in a clearing we saw a little house that had been reconstructed, as the Germans had destroyed the original one...
There were a lot of pictures of resistance members and such..there is an American soldier..Paul Swank buried along the road near us.. he was killed when he was acting as a decoy for the resistance and had asked to be buried where he fell, so after interment in the military cemetery in Arlington, his parents had him moved to the side of the road between Limoux and Couisa, where he fell. Last week they had a memorial for him here..There is so much interesting history here, it is hard to take it all in...I am going back and write in the book at the resistance museum about my Dad being in Normandy..there were so many pics of young men just like him..
I was a great day even if it is hot as ..... and we had to park the car in Couisa and walk up the hill so that it will not be damaged by revelers...
Water fight Girls in fountain
Kids in fountain
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