Weird weather and the book is coming out!

We're starting the new Jewish year a bit strangely. The weather has gone all warm and a little humid. It was unusually cold and now, we're baking! I went back to the closet to dig out my T-shirts.

Saturday there was an exibition of associations in Alsace, all sorts, health, sports, leisure, etc. Well, as "Window to Strasbourg" is a non-profit organization, we had a stand. Here you can see how we decorated. Needless to say, at all-French event, we weren't exactly overwhelmed with visits;



Those are two of the other writers manning the desk and I decorated it the day before with one of the editors.

There weren't a lot of people, mainly due to the good weather. Plus, we went on Saturday and since Sunday all the stores are closed, people usually do these types of activities then. A few books did sell though...

Here is the website. Tell me how pretty it looks (so I can compliment Tara);
http://www.windowtostrasbourg.com/

As you may have noticed in the photo, Davina actually got her face painted. She let them put a butterfly at the gymnastics show in June but this was a big butterfly all over her face and she loved it. Talia wanted one too. Ronnie was at a soccer match so he wasn't in on the act. One of the children's associations was doing it for free. I thought they did a really good job.













There were a lot of dogs there for various groups and some did demonstrations. This is a water-rescue dog;



Once at home. No, I did not teach Davina "namaste" (but I will ;)



The next day we went to Badenweiler to do the hot springs. Can you tell we like these?? Now we've visited three in Germany and I think this one gets the best marks (although the others rate high too);

http://www.badenweiler.de/en

Check out the fall colors, which are starting to really come out now;





No photos of us because I locked the camera away. In those kinds of places, you go from pool to pool so you can't leave anything valuable. You can't realistically keep an eye on it. Perhaps I'll try some shots next time but we just wanted to enjoy the pools.

We even think we might go there for a weekend but we wont eat in the same restaurant. It was actually good, not too expensive but took ages!

Here are some photos from a couple of weeks ago, picking flowers on the way home from Benfeld to see my mother-in-law. Davina was asleep in the car so I just took Ronnie and Talia.