Chez Nous (Our House)

I'm feeling a little under the weather today.  It could be because it is raining.  I could have body aches from doing a pyramid of squats and push ups yesterday.  Or, I may have caught a cold from Christopher.  Anyway, I'm feeling a little run down.

If you get sick in France and need over the counter medication, you have to go to the pharmacy.  Once there, a pharmacist questions you about what is wrong, and then decides what type of medicine to give you.  I had read about this before packing for France.  Which is why I came prepared with Advil, Immodium, Neosporin, Children's Motrin, Benadryl, Triaminic, Pepto Bismol, etc. You can imagine what kind of situation I was trying to avoid.  I like to keep my symptoms on the DL.  One thing I failed to bring with me is Sudafed.  And a couple of days ago, Christopher was very congested.  So, he went to the pharmacy and discovered that all I had read about the pharmacy is true!  Luckily, he had studied a chapter on "les maladies" and was able to have a successful interaction with the pharmacist.  And I'm glad, because I happily popped a Sudafed last night without going through the third degree.

I've had some requests to post pictures of our house.  Here you go:

Here is our house!  We live on Rue de la Gruerie.  I couldn't find the word "gruerie" in the dictionary.  I did find the word "grue" which means "crane."   I think I may have read that a lot of stone was quarried from this area, with the use of cranes.  Is it possible that our street is where they built the cranes?  That's my guess.  Anyway, we live on the rez de chaussée, or ground level.

Here is Gaius in the yard outside his bedroom.

French Doors off of the dining area lead to our bedroom.

 

Christopher uses that little desk.  And no, those are not all of the shoes that I packed.

I like our bathroom.  Our toilet has two different flushing options.

Gaius has his own little yard outside his bedroom door.  

Here is our living room with the kitchen in the background.  Our bedroom is through those French doors.  And I sit at the dining room table when I write my blog.

Here is my little kitchen.  I love it!

I'm amazed that we have a full sized refrigerator!  The picture on the bottom is of me on my birthday at the Eiffel Tower.  Gaius said that he is sorry he drew my orange hands so big.

Here is our dining patio right outside the kitchen.  Gaius eats lunch out there on sunny days and has his after school snack (pain au chocolate) out there too.

I hope you enjoyed viewing our new home.  Vous êtes les bienvenus chez nous! (You are welcome at our house!)

à bientôt!