Villars.... October 20th & 21st

Bonjour...

So the first weekend I spent at my new host family's place, we went to their family's place out in the country.. it was about a 4 hour drive and surprisingly to me, we ended up like right in the middle of France. So I guess France isn't really that big. Anyway it was a pretty good drive, watching the countryside change from heavy suburb to semi country, definately not the countryside I know, but it was awesome all the same. For my family; it looked alot like Belgium... well you'll see in the pics. So we left Saturday morning and arrived late afternoon, they like to stop alot. I met the majority of the family, we were actually there for the 50th anniversary of Jean-Pierre's (my host dad) older sister.... there is 19 years between them! So MAB and I walked around the farm basicly all day, I wanted to see everything!! and I took pictures of EVERYTHING! ha ha he kept saying again?? How can you take 3 pictures of the same thing? Easy... cuz I can with my camera and I want too!! lol Nah it was a really good time, I just wanted to spend the entire time outside, I didn't realise how much I really missed space I guess. It was soo amazing, to just take a deep breath of fresh air! I just felt renewed after this weekend - I know that sounds lame, but I guess I really needed my dose of the farm. It's funny how you really don't know what is important to you until you leave.


- The farm, I wish you could all see this farm, it was basicly a petting farm but in mass production.. I absolutely loved it!! It was like I went back in time. Everything on the farm had a purpose, and they intended to eat all of the animals or the products they made. They have everything from rabbits, chickens, ducks and a damn annoying rooster (who decided that everyone needed to get up at 4 - man I wanted to kill it!! ha ha) Then they have goats and a cow that they milk, beef cattle, and sheep. It was soo sweet. Haydn is destined to come here, i just know it!!


Now for the Pics!!




So this is the guest house that we stayed in, pretty nice eh!?.... So I told you how there is about 19 years between my host father and his sister. So My host father is more like the same age as his cousins, so anyway his parents built this house when he was still fairly young because his older sister was living in the original house and starting a family. So I guess that is why they have 2 houses, however now this house is just used for guests.










Here is one of the barns. I love the old bricks and the history here, it just seems to have SOO much more history to it, I love the "back in the day" feel.








Here is a side profile of basically the whole farm.









I took alot of pictures of the countryside, like this one. This is taken just from the backside of the farm. I think it's very pretty; france has alot of rolling hills like this.








The Beautiful Charolais!! and some countryside again...









Taken by MAB, my personal photographer, ha ha ha..., he took this right before I hopped the fence and said "lets go exploring" I got the feeling that he was a little ataken back by this but he came along anyway!!









Yet another picture of the countryside.









Good old tractor!...well it's not really old. lol... put that picture in for the famers sake!











Another random pic of me, nice charolais in the background.









Save the best for last, I really hope you all see this one. This is Nicole, the lady who had the 50th anniversary, she is like 70+ years old and still gets up every morning (real early) to do all the chores and that. I was really rather impressed by this!... EVERYTHING they eat on this farm is like completely natural, and they basically make it all too.









Well hope you enjoyed! A bientot!