Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How to keep everyone happy

It's a Wednesday, which means no school for the kids, which means (until now), traipsing off to tour a castle or cathedral or cheese-making abbey.

But today we stayed closer to home. When talking with our new friends Alli and John over the weekend, we came up with the brilliant plan of exchanging our offspring occasionally to allow the adults to go out on a date -- or at least get lunch in a place where you wouldn't want to take your kids. And so today it was our turn (and next week we'll be returning the favor).

So we left Jack, Kate, and Liv happily playing with their new friends - and this was the kind of day they had (Photo courtesy Allison G. M.)


After sipping a wonderful 2006 white wine opened by John and Alli, we headed out to La Ciboulette, a great little restaurant in Beaune that locals seem to love. And this was the kind of day we had:


Yes, that's the cheese course in front of me. You have to love a country that devotes a whole course to cheese.

Here's to good eating and good friends (of all ages).

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