This week is referred to as "hell week" by some aupairs, and apparently some host parents. This is because the kids are not in school for this time and we, as auparis, must watch them every day, every hour, every minute.. you get the picture. However, my kids have been really fun and this time has actually helped us get closer. Granted spending so much time with kids is very exhausting, those little bodies have so much energy!
I like to keep the kiddos busy, and I feel like putting them outside is some of the best things I can do to help them get rid of their energy. So I kept taking them at the park. We also ended up at a big cat zoo [lions and tigers and ... goats and lemurs].
"Don't touch the lemurs"... They are literally able to climb on top of you if they so felt like it (the "barrier" was just a couple of logs, and the cement path). So it was a game of "please don't touch me lemur so I don't get kicked out of the park".
Leo and I played a "guess the drawing" game. Could any body else guess what this is? To me it looks like a demon cow. I was apparently close. According to Leo it is a mean dog.
This weekend I ended up taking a road trip to Loire Valley - a place in France with a castle almost every 5 km. It was quite interesting, as you went down the road into each different city, the castles only got better.
Castle numero uno (that we visited). Dijon.
Dos. Sully.
Tres. Chambourd.
"I know you want it" - I'm pitbulling here if no one else gets the reference. But yeah.. this is castle 4. Blois.
We ended up staying the night in Blois. We also happened to go out for the night and surprisingly we found a place that was open later than 1 am. All this after we played the best dare game in the world, unfortunately now the front desk person thinks I have an obsession with grapes to want them at 12 in the morning.
The next day we visited Da Vinci's crib.
For some reason he was hiding out in the basement. I guess he isn't a "people person".
But his garden was kind of spectacular.
The last castle was the best one we visited. It was known as the "princess castle" or something like that because mostly women stayed here, and decorated the whole thing. Chenonceau.
This was the last happy picture I took that day. We left after seeing this castle and the ride home took just over 2 hours. Now consider this, I've been driving for 2 days, manual, and I was just way too happy to be home that 2 seconds into the drive way I hit the side gates that open up into my house and dent the entire back door of my car. Oh yeah, and I hit the wooden gate on my way in as well... because the brick wall just wasn't enough.
My host parents also had people over that I've never met before, so clearly I am awesome at first impressions.
Fortunately the family wasn't mad at all. If anything I feel like I was harder on myself than anyone else was. Because I just felt stupid. I have never been in any kind of car accident, and I consider myself a pretty good driver. How the hell do I manage to put a large dent in the car driving INTO the driveway after a 2 day long road trip, 2 months of driving on ridiculously curvy and narrow french roads, and alongside french drivers. Ughh.. Well I guess every au pair has to screw up one way, this was mine....
driving into the driveway...never going to let that go.
Currently the running joke is: when will I even out the other side?
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