mon petit voyage: moo visits lyon!

Moo comes to Lyon!

Well, i'm a little out of order on these posts, but a couple weeks ago my little momma (accompanied by her college roomies, Eva and my Aunt Beth) came all the way from Virginia to visit me in Lyon!

Don't we look stylish? Jack and Nancy (family living in France just outside of Geneva) have a tradition of always dressing up in crazy outfits when they meet people at the airport. Hahhaaa...so here we are, Bull: Catherine, Cowboy: Jack (equipped with water guns), Cowgirl: Nancy, Cow: Magz. And we were also really loud and annoying at the airport, cheering when people ran up to meet their families at the baggage claim and by shooting our waterguns (I was surprised they let us have waterguns...don't think that would be allowed in New York). Mom, Eve, and Beth all arrived with matching hats and scarves and pillows stuffed in their shirts pretending to be pregnant.

Cow and Cowgirl!

All the Swiss people stared at us...wonder why? I think they liked it.

We spent a couple days in and around Geneva.

Friday night we had a "Southren Party" at Nancy & Jack's house. Catherine and I cooked up some of Aunt Thelema's buscuits, bacon, and Momma Moo made her famous cheese grits so that our european buddies could taste the wonders of southren cookin'.

Mollie and I having way too much fun peeling apples

Jack used a plastic mold to put the face of the Holy Mary on the biscuits.

Dinner!

Then we drove over to visit our Bauman relatives in Bern, Switzerland!

more cousins! Here we are at the Bauman homeplace where my great great great grandfather lived before they left Switzerland and immigrated to America.

This luckily, this coin was in my my great great great bauman uncle's breast pocket and from dying when this bullet hit him - pretty darn lucky!

Eating some Bauman beef with the cousins!

Bauman beef in its previous state

Then, the Baumans took us up to the ridge behind their house for a GORGEOUS view of the valley & the Alps.

Here is Moo, pretending like she's going to jump of the hang gliding platform. You know Moo, we just can't keep her away from those dangerous, life-threating sports!

Then Mom & Eve came back and stayed with me in Lyon for a couple days! We hiked up to the Fourviere, visited the Roman Ruins, went to the tapestry museum, had picnics along the Rhone, bought pretty dresses for Eve's angel neices, hit up the Lyon street market (like a giant flee market, but french style!), and had dinner at a Bouchon with my host family, Sabine & Dominique!