This is Hilda dancing on the beach with her ice cream on Saturday.
On Sunday we went hiking in the mountains with Robina, the USAC resident director, and her family. We were near the village of Castet near, but not in, the high Pyranees. We were hiking at about only 1000m above sea level which was perfect for us. Hilda was mostly a sport about hiking, but had a few meltdowns and we ended up carrying her more than we had hoped. All in all it was a great day. We had a lovely picnic, a French picnic with a tablecloth, wine and real wine glasses, a cheese course, salad, basque octopus, etc. Yummy! And we sat and ate and chatted for at least 1 1/2 hours. The kids played football and hide and go seek and didn't seem to mind that despite being bilingual they did not have a common language (Robina's kids speak French and German). The photo is of Hilda, Robina and I walking after lunch in the mountains. It was cool to be so close to the big mountains with their snowy peaks and yet, we were able to walk among the free-range cows with their big cowbells around their necks. Hilda loved listening for the cows and trying to figure out where they were.
Monday I went to the new Almodovar film during Hilda's nap (the first one in 3 days) and then we went to the Cite des Abeilles (Bee city). I couldn't resist an insect city, right? It was fun although we never found the queen bee in the hives, maybe she was on holiday? We had a honey tasting and looked at all of the different kinds of man-made hives through the ages. Then we went to Mounin (not exactly spelled like that) where we saw a gothic cathedral with a 40 meter bell tower and then to Lescasse which is on one of the Camino de Santiago trails.
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