friends & fireworks

amis et feu d'artifice

Dîner chez Alexandre et Anna

Merci nos amis !  C'était génial.

Dinner at Alexandre and Anna's place

Thank you our friends !  It was great.

après notre repas, nous sommes allés à st. paul de vence

after our meal, we went to st. paul de vence

prêt pour la fête nationale demain

ready for the national holiday tomorrow

 (photo by tonio)

presque une pleine lune

almost a full moon

le quatorze juillet

fourteenth of july

le jour de la prise de la Bastille

the day of the storming of the Bastille

 

maintenant, mon "quatre juillet" est dix jours après

now, my "4th of july" is 10 days later

14 juillet avec mon mari au bord de la mer

july 14th with my husband along the sea

--L

catch up

full days

a quick recap of the past few days:

• calvary chapel Nice team meeting with pierre and nancy

• prayer night at church

• café at church

• date night - walk through Nice and a movie at home

• lindsey cleaned church with a friend

• 50th wedding anniversary for tonio's good friends' parents

• sunday morning - tonio lead worship, ran sound, and gave a guitar lesson after

• 4th of July BBQ at an American couple's home

• nancy's birthday picnic in villefranche

below are some pictures:

first, these are from our walk around Nice

(and so is the one at the top)

the houses are beautiful

old signs - love them, especially in French

tonio's old street - he lived here most of his life

it's the building after the one that his head is touching

 these are from the 4th of july BBQ

(pierre spraying us with water)

and i took this one after our picnic on the beach for nancy's birthday

villefranche is gorgeous - we snorkeled, enjoyed the setting sun, 

ate dinner, sang to nancy "joyeux anniversaire" and had cake =)

--L

nous sommes dix

we are ten

l'adresse de l'église

(the address of the church)

en bas, vous pouvez voir le vieux numéro

(below, you can see the old number)

une feuille de papier sur la boite aux lettres

(a piece of paper on the mailbox)

mais maintenant, c'est officiel

(but now it's official)

mon mari est multi-doué

(my husband is multi-talented)

bien joué mon chèri

(well done my love)

la confusion est finie pour les gens dans le coin

(confusion is over for the people around here)

--L

Lucéram

a mountain village outside of Nice
about 30 minutes
we went with jonathan and thomas,
friends from church

some friends of ours own this property and let us use it freely...

this was a reconnaissance trip - verdict - overgrown, but beautiful

it's nice to have access to the mountains to escape the city every once in a while

--L

Nice at night

Amis

(Friends)

l'autre soir on est allés à Vieux Nice avec nos amis, 

Guillaume, Marianne et la petite Cecille

(the other night we went to Old Nice with our friends...)

Cecille adore Tonio...Elle aime beaucoup faire du cheval sur ses épaules.

(Cecille loves Tonio...She really likes to ride horses on his shoulders.)

reconnaissants

(thankful)

--L

je suis encore un petit peu malade, mais mieux qu'avant

(i'm still a little bit sick, but better than before)

teamwork

the joy of marriage

these past few days i've been pretty sick

headache, sinus cold, weak, the whole deal

and the 10 mosquito bites on my left leg don't help either

my husband is wonderful

he has made me chicken noodle soup

did the grocery shopping for us

put the groceries away

has helped so much with dishes

and on top of all that...

bought me a beautiful bouquet of red roses

he keeps reminding me that we are a team

sometimes i forget that

it's such a crazy picture of God's love for us

we're not alone in this adventure

of course some days are harder than others

but each morning brings new mercies

i'm so thankful for my husband

i'm so thankful for Jesus Christ in my life, 

in his life, in our lives together

thank you Jesus !

"Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! 

For His mercy endures forever." 

-Psalm 118:1

--Love Lindsey

another top 10 list

more reasons why i like Nice, France...

1)  jeans fit me really well here

     (les jeans me vont bien ici)

2)  rollerblading along the mediterranean sea

     (faire du roller au bord de la mer) 

3) the smell of croissants in the morning from the bakery downstairs

(l'odeur des croissants le matin de la boulangerie en bas)

4)  mini cantaloupe

     (des minis melons)

5)  free newspapers

     (des journaux gratuits)

6)  festivals, fairs, concerts

     (des festivals, des foires, des concerts)

7)  Calvary Chapel Nice

8)  the pigeons tap dancing on our terrace roof

     (les pigeons qui font des claquettes sur notre toit de terrace)

9)  the kitty cats in our apartment courtyard

       (les chats dans notre cour d'appartement)

10)  sunshine and blue skies !

     (du soleil et des ciels bleus)

thank you Jesus for my new life here with my husband!

(merci Jésus pour ma nouvelle vie ici avec mon mari)

--L