Climbing gym

and a very funny tag for a bouldering circuit

Lego

Zoe has started playing with Legos a lot. MUCH better than Barbies!

Snowman

Made a snowman with the Chateau kids+Zoe+alex
Later, I peered out the window and silvered one of the kids (neither of the below kids, who are wonderful and well behaved) casually stabbing the snowman in the torso with a stick. The next time I looked out of the window the snowman's head was gone.

A new family member

I present … Bento!

Back from the USA

And greated with yet more Bouygues Telecom incompetence! No internet @home again. I'll update once it comes back.

SFO

Another nice long flight home. At least we got to check out the very cool exhibit about mountain bikes (including a lot of stuff about Joe Breeze, who I rode with earlier this year!)

Packing

The hardest part was the bike. Also, we had to weigh everything since there were so many kid gifts

Sukiyaki

I miss sukiyaki a lot too. I'm not sure what I did to aggravate Zoe here, but she was clearly not happy with me. Note the learning chopsticks which the children appear to have already lost.

Dinner at Rivoli

Wonderful, as usual. Terrible pictures though!

Academy of Sciences

We went to the Academy of Sciences with the kids and nana today. It is a fabulous museum that the kids love, and we were happy to take them there but whoever runs it needs to get a grip -- it's just too much money. We were talking to a camp councillor in the East Bay, and she told us that even with the (meager) discount for camps, they could not afford to bring their kids there. Science education is a privilege of the rich, I guess.

From there, we had some amazing Pho in the Richmond district and we ACTUALLY FOUND PARKING ON CLEMENT STREET!

Arrgrghghgh

Broke the iPhone back

more food!

One of the other foods that we really miss is Indian food. One of our previous favorite places in Grenoble seems to have replaced their cooks with teenagers, so the food is terrible now and for some inexplicable reason, everyone seems to love this one place (Namaste?) which has *terrible*, over salted Indian food. Basically, there are a few ok places for Indian food in Grenoble, but nothing that is really off the charts like Ajanta.

Today, the parents and I went with Zoe to Ajanta for lunch, and it was awesome. The best Indian food anywhere.


And then it was "cool sunset time"