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Tody was the day we all moved to France for the wedding. Matt and Lere had found a cool place Called Cateau Mayo just across the French boarder in Biorette.

First order of biz was to go get the car. ,,, that involved a bus ride.. actually two bus rides because I for got the car keys. We parked out near the bull ring (yes.. such things still exhist !)

We went back in to town , picking up Alex, one of Leyre’s freinds on the way.. We parked long enough to get out bags then headed out of town.

We were all hungry soe we decixced to stop for lunch atone of the next towns over , Pasaia. It was a pretty little town.. kind of ccongested. we tried to fidmn a pl;ace to eat.. whcih wasnt as eaasy as it sounds..we walked down by the watershore of the bay.. and finally found a small place to eat.

After lunch, we got in the car and quickly reached the French border… There was absolutely no formalities. You didn’t even see a “welcome to France” sign… An hour later we got to château Mayo. It was a big old 400 year old manor house that was in various states of repair. It was beautiful place and beautiful grounds. As we arrived, we were assigned to our rooms. We got on our play clothes and went outside. The first day was called “American day”… Or people celebrated with American games and we met at American food l. It was fun… But I didn’t really feel like playing touch football so Becky and I went off and search of fans because it was pretty hot. We bought five of them and the time it took to play touch football.

Dinner was really fun.. we cgot to meet more of matt and leyeres freinds and relatives.. some folks spoke spanish.. some ienglish, some basque.. we all had fun getting to be freinds there was plenty of beer, hambergers and hot dogs.. lots of music too

Later, the party moved inside .. Matt and Leyre played the “shoe game”… Each of them sat back to bThe two of them sat back to back. Each had one of their own shoes and one of their partners. As questions were answered each of them had to bring up one of the shoes to indicate which partner they thought most fit the question… Somewhere easy somewhere embarrassing… all were fun

as often happens, I had more fun watching than playing.. 🙂

AFter the gamne.. folks drifted off into small groups. Gabe had a microscope attachment for his phone and was showing people pictures of the business end of the multiple hornets that were flying around the venue