Mendocino

Quick trip to Mendocino for the weekend. Mendocino, it's a tiny town, very quiet, on the cliffs about 2 hours North of San Francisco. Overcast most of the time, except for a glorious sunset, when the sun finally moved below the clouds...

Pumpkins and elephants

Visit at the Oakland zoo after Thanksgiving. The first stop was at the elephants, who seemed to really enjoy the pumpkins. And for the rest of the tour, we heard Anastasia begging to go back to the elephants to sketch.

Pumpkin

Halloween is around the corner, and we went to a huge pumpking patch in Petaluma. Kyan knew the place already as he had been there last year with his class. Therefor he was our guide in the corn maze, but even with a map, it took us 30 minutes to get out.

Friends in Japantown

We had the visit of the Doreaux, always a pleasure. The kids, on both sides, couldn't wait to see each other. And since the "big girls" needed some japanese design goodies, we took the whole gang to Japantown...

Up in the trees

We were dying to go up there too, but, promise, next time, the grown-ups will get to go play in the canopy as well. Parc Adventure in Switzerland. Our little world travelers had a blast...

At Boulou's

Small visit to his chalet for some culinary specialties and indian music...

Lavender

On the way back to Switzerland from the South of France, we spent a night midway, in the Drome. A chance to visit a region of France I didn't know at all. And when weren't lost in lavender fields, we got to visit Grignan and its castel, and the very interesting Silk Museum in Taulignan.

Seaside

The best week of the year is back, a week by the Mediterranean in the South of France with our family... Sadly, Michael didn't make it this year... Lots of sand, waves and sun...

Weekend in Los Angeles

After numerous failed attempts, we finally made it to our friends in LA (Santa Monica to be fair, it's much nicer then just LA). Kyan, Anastasia and I drove down on Friday, and Michael joined us on Sunday. What a treat to see the Doreaux again, to chat while sketching with Delphine, and the kids were thrilled to see their buddy Etienne again. We even managed to go see the dinosaurs at the museum, and the mammoths at the Tar Pit.
And about the pictures taken at the beach, all three kids were wearing clothing from my creation. What an honor...