Market, Randonnée des écureuils

Hello faithful readers. While there is another blog that exists with much more mundane content, and is only superficially different from this other blog that is the current leader in readers (mostly from the West and the suburbs, I guess), and people probably cared about the values of this blog and it was finally resonating with people and this was more than clear the last time there was a "popularity vote" for blogs, with the aim of becoming more popular, this blog is going to shift directions, move away from its original purpose, and simply aim to become that other blog that is really only superficially different from that other other blog so that we can attract more readers and maybe one day be the leader in readers. Never mind that to do this we'll be moving away from the foundation and original purpose of this blog. The name of the game is votes -- I mean readers -- so we've got to move towards the centre -- I mean away from social democratic principles -- I mean be more like the Liberals -- I mean, well, I actually lost the metaphor a while back. So anyways...

We went to the market yesterday (just as I said we would -- now you can trust my musings with respect to future events more readily than perhaps before) and it was fun as ever. Here's Sandi choosing something (maybe a grapefruit?). This is maybe 1/150th of the market right here. A lot of it is outside (like in this picture) but then a lot of it is inside as well. We got cheese, fruits, vegetables, meat, raviolis, quiches, and maybe some other stuff as well.

After the market we (as I said, again) went on the randonnée des écureuils. It was really fun and the sights were quite amazing. We rode up up up up mountains and through some villages and farmland. We rode with this French man who knew the route and he was really nice and we ate the lunch that they give you at the end with him and it was good to practice our French. Here I am in front of a stream going down a mountain.

Here's Sandi almost at the top of one of the big climbs. Some of them were 12% grade or more! (most people here seem to have altimeters on their bikes and at the top of the biggest climb they were all going on about how it was 12% or more for most of it wow wow wow). If you can see the village behind Sandi in the distance, we rode through that several kilometres before so you can get some idea of how far up we went...

On Sandi's birthday she walked up to the bastille (previously we had taken the cable cars) and she took some pictures. Here's a really nice one (Grenoble):

And finally, here's Sandi with her new flowers and her new birthday scarf!!!

Our stuff that we sent on the boat is finally arriving this Wednesday.. pretty exciting but who in the world knows where we'll be able to put it all!?!?