The French countryside near where we'll be staying the next week.

The courtyard around the farmhouse and barn buildings.

Here's the farmhouse we'll be staying at the next week.
7-17-10 Saturday
Today’s going to be a pretty long drive day, so we got up early, got cleaned and packed, and hit the road. We just saw a little bit of the Eiffel Tower as we passed by Paris. We are staying the next week about 40 minutes west of Paris. The drive was about 5-6 hours, but we had to stop a couple times to get drinks, go to the bathroom, etc. We finally arrived at our location and immediately loved it. It’s in the French countyside in a farmhouse near the town of Blaru. Blaru is quite close to Giverny which is famous for Claude Monet they painter lived there and painted a lot of his water lily type pictures there. The surrounding landscape and the little villages and farmhouses are great. The lady we are renting from though is a little bit uptight, and I forgot we were supposed to have a deposit, so I had to go back into the closest main town, Vernon and pull out some extra cash. The kids played in the courtyard while I went into town and came back with the deposit. I think Kindra really likes this place too.