Well... before telling anything about our last week in Beaune and other beautiful places, eating delicious foods, drinking delicious wines (as well as a couple of Marcs de Bourgogne, in the place of & until we found the Fine de Bourgogne that Barb was on a desperate search for) and walking and biking beautiful trails... before all that and more, we feel we must mention that today was... Da! DA!... Leo & Tomi's first day of (pre-)school!
And what a day it's been: First Day of School Blueberry Muffins; First Day of School Accident on the Rug; First Day of School Ironing of the First Day of School Trousers...
Here we are on the First Day of School Ride Downstairs in the Elevator:
And here are the boys starting out in the opposite direction on their First Day of School Walk to School:
And here are the parents on their First Day of School Retreat From the School (which you can just see over the walk around the entrance and playground) to their First Day of School Coffee:
What a strange day... The boys needed more than the changes of clothes that we'd brought for them - as their teacher said, "It's the emotion that does it." Then again, they were so happy when we found them again at noon: Tomi smiling and dancing, and Leo holding another boy's hand and and smiling happily... The school is beautiful & the teacher seems very sweet and understanding... & it turns out that their little buddy Chiara is in their class, too! The adventure continues on Friday (since they start the smallest ones out by introducing a thrid of the class to the classroom on three separate days.
Now, I'm going to sift through the pictures of the past 10 days and try to get some of them up before Larry & Barb are back in Iowa ( ! )...
