Easter day in France

Easter morning started out with the whole family sleeping until 10am.   We had a wonderful dinner last night at the home of Wes's french research partner.  I asked them if they ate like this every meal.  I was stuffed!   I defiantly like the idea of a cheese course after the main entree. Something I will try at home.They gave a name of a better grocery store and more scenic running routes.     We didn't get home until 1130pm.  The kids went straight to bed in their clothes.  It was wonderful!

Ava came running into our room this morning asking she could go downstairs to see what the easter bunny had left her.  I made an excuse to stay upstairs and frantically ran downstairs and attempted to assemble some type of scene that would look like the easter bunny made his way to France.   Luckily the kids were please with chocolate bunnies and eggs that we left, especially since the bunny was almost caught in the act ;).

We spent the rest of the day strolling through Lyon.  By the afternoon the kids had reached their limit on walking and we practically had to drag them back to the metro station to make it home.

The above two pictures are from some ruins we found at a back of a large church.  Sorry- we don't have any pictures of the church- I will post them later, but the main church is about 800 years old.   There was sign that indicated this were ruins from the original church.  What is amazing about this, is that this may been one of the first Christian churches established in western europe.  These ruins are at least 2000 years old.  I am still amazed everyday at the age of the buildings here.   For more info you can google St. Jean for read more history about this church.  All these churches are still used and have services weekly.

Our makeshift Easter egg hunt in the apartment.

Excuse the "fort" in the background.  The kids are attempting to be creative in a small 2 bedroom flat.

Tomorrow we are going to take the train to a small medieval town.  Should be interesting.