Firstly not sure why this has taken me so long to update, nearly 6 weeks late – errr I was busy….  well that is my excuse and I am sticking to it.  Due to this holiay being so long ago, I am going o find it hard to remember what we did (that is why I write this blog as a reminder to myself ).  So it it will mainly be snippets.

Due to Lara’s hand being broken our idea of doing lots of biking went out the window, so we spent quite a bit of time walking in the mountains, Ellis being the cool Little lady she is sat on my back happily waving at cows as I keep my nervous eye on them ( they are all evil and out to kill me). 

We also spent a lot of time by the Lac de Serre Poncon which was lovely.  We bought her a little tent and Granny Smith was great at entertaining her singing ‘twinkle twinkle little star’  I can honestly say that song didn’t start to grate after the thousands time…… it kept Ellis amused anyway!  Lara and I would go swimming and Lara managed to soak up the sun which she desperately misses in Aberdeen.

Ellis thought the water was too cold and didn’t like going to play in it……  she is definitely her mothers daughter as everytime Lara went into it is was one of those inch by inch slowly wading in type of water entries that if I tried to speed up I got a short sharp shouting at and I knew she meant it “ ONE MORE SPLASH AND I WILL ####### KILL YOU!!!”

Not being great at sunbathing I decided to take up windsurfing, dad handily has a new one hanging in the garage so i decided to havea  go.  Great fun!  a little wobbly to start off with but the more I did it the more my confidence grew and the faster I went.  I look forward to more summer time spent on it.

The lake in question – the biggest man made fresh water lake in Europe and bloody lovely it is too!

Some days it was a little too hot to take Ellis out into the sun, so Granny Smith would stick her in the bath and feed her on the Patio.  She would sit and happily splash around for ages, and then when she was finished you could easily clean all the food she had liberally distributed all over her self, a great two in one system!

On these hot days I would take the opportunity to go and get out on my bike, i managed to get out on my bike and tick off a couple of classic Tour De France climbs.  The fear Mount Ventoux  (having done it now i understand the hype, it is hard!)  and the Col D’Izoard.

Ellis went to the swimming pool once, she loved it and it was great for her to play in but unfortuntaly her skin did not like the chlorine and until her skin gets a little less sensitive she will have to give it a miss.

Other than that we spent a lot of time with our local friends we made out there when we were in Gap on out Honeymoon, was great to spend time with them and go out biking / walking with them.  Granny and Pops were great at babysitting, Granny spent most of the time getting beaten up

and we had to resort to caging the beast!

the rest of the pictures from the holiday can be seen by clicking here