Yesterday marked the official start of a project that the boys' teacher, Muriel, and I are putting together. The idea is to use their classes on animals and food to make a collaborative book (mostly on cows and how their milk eventually makes its way to children's stomachs), combining the children's drawings, paintings and words with ours. To begin the project, the children were taken to an Alsatian biodynamic farm, La Ferme de Truttenhausen, that makes cheeses, butter, yoghurt, herb spreads and many other things, which they sell at local famers' markets and also at the local producer's section of the Strasbourg Xmas Market, which begins tomorrow. (I love the Xmas Market. And I love this family's Xmas Market stand. And luckily for us, this part of the market is practically next door! In any case... Where was I? Oh, yes!) The following pictures are something of an overview of the long day that we had yesterday, while many of you were having lovely Thanksgiving feasts with family and friends. Speaking of which: Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are our boys in the BIG! BUS! MY! BIG! BUS! that took us to the farm:
Here are parts of the scene that began unfolding as we stepped from the BIG! BUS!
Here is Leo (a.k.a, Puck):
Here is a corner of the barn's interior. The barn was a low, thick-walled structure that looked as though it was two centuries old or more...
And here are the boys with their Dally later that night, attacking the pop-up book their Gamma & Gampa gave them, and which we only let them see under close supervision; and even then...
