Sorry this is so many days delayed. We didn’t have much connectivity where we were in Arces .

Friday was the big day . We all tried to look busy in prep for the wedding .. but what we really did was to stay out of the way 🙂

The wedding was beautiful.. !

Ill try to add some notrs from the plane..

It was a great day !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I didn’t even try blogging last night because of lack of connectivity. I’m in the small town of epargnes Picking up our new friends Cynthia and Auilliume (sp ?). Yesterday was another really fun day. The big adventure for us was that GabÉ, Kevyn and I drove to cognac to visit the Hennessey distillery. It was kind of a pilgrimage because Hennessey has become so synonymous with rap culture. And my dad loved it as well. So it was really fun. It was about an hour drive through small country lanes. The distillery was on the banks of a very beautiful river. We had just enough time to grab a quick And very delicious Italian lunch… Then went on a 90 minute tour of Hennessy. It was really amazing and well done. He started out by watching a movie of the evolution of the brand and then went step-by-step through the distillation process, Couper Ng (making of the barrels) and the aging and mixing. Each one of the steps had a very cool multi media aspect. Whoever did it should be very proud.

In the end we got to do sampling of cognac that I could never afford. A 16-year-old EXO and comparing it to a VS OP. I’m not a cognac snob but man was the stuff good

One thing we got to do is view some really highly prized bottles… Like this one which was $25,000… Only 60 in existence

Then came the best part… The tasting

From there we drove back In time for gabe to help cook dinner. Diane and I went for a short run and got to see the old church in our small town

And then… a wonderful meal .. Which should be no surprise by now

Ok.. We’re well into Friday now… The big day. We’re all pretending to help get ready for the wedding… The mostly were just goofing off.

More from later

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Spent the day at Arces .. woke lateish and then managed to upload last nights blog one picture at a time .. not much cell signal here .. but it makes up for it in Charm.

Headed over to the house for breakfast around 9

We all then headed to Rouen to see the market

From there we headed to the Cote savage .. the savage coast and hung out on the beach..which was beautiful!

It was a half clothed , half naked

beach.. we all opted for clothed

Part of the beach had a bunch of these old World War II anchors. They’ve been tossed about by something?

From there we went back to

Arces .. For an amazing seafood dinner.

The night ended for us with a game in which Hannah and Olivier tried to guess how each other would answer simple question (eg. What is the others Favorite spice?)

Then how around midnight

I’m standing on a hill behind the house in the hopes that I get enough signal to post this. If not you’ll see it later

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Greetings from Arces in southwestern France . We’re here for Hannah and Olivier’s wedding . We left the Airbnb around 10 and uber-Ed to the airport to pick up a car

About 5 hours later we got here to arces . Just in time for dinner

The place for the wedding is amazing..

Blogging from there because we don’t have much connectivity from our Airbnb down the street

Nice to be out of contact!

Nite

All, nite Sam

-me