After fresh croissants for breakfast we went to a cheese factory, Fromagerie Gaugry that makes soft cheese. After the initial period of getting used to the smell, I was a really impressed by the set up with big windows to watch the production process and a self-led video tour. They weren’t doing much producing since it is Saturday but the kids liked watching to workers move cheese from one curing room to another and clean equipment.
When we first arrived we went to the shop to get the key to the elevator but the elevator was out of order. There was a flight of stairs up and one of the kids we are staying with uses a wheelchair. Her dad was able to carry her wheelchair up the stairs but Céline said if she was alone she would have had to leave because she can’t carry the wheelchair alone. In France it seems that there is not as much accessibility for those with disabilities. Even the quaint cobblestone is a barrier for some people. Hopefully, by the time her daughter is older, things will change.

I forgot to take pictures in the factory but here are our morning croissants!

During the tour, Asa started complaining about his tooth so he and I went to a pharmacy to get him some ibuprofen. He had a abscessed tooth about a year ago and the dentist said to just leave it because it would be falling out soon. It’s loose now and has been bothering him. Hopefully it won’t turn into an issue while we are here.

We took a walk near our lunch spot after the cheese factory tour.

Then we went to lunch at a local French restaurant, Au Clos Napoléon. We ate outside which we have been doing for almost every meal and it has been great. The temperatures have been in the 70s all week with mostly sun.

Cal eating a morel mushroom that was part of the kids meal. You read that correctly.

Our hosts treated us to this meal which was very generous of them! My burger was great, maybe the best one I’ve had. Then we went to Château du Gilly.We toured the grounds outside which had a stream running through it that the kids loved. They made boats out of bark and leaves to float down the stream and we just sat outside and enjoyed the weather.After a quick run to a Super U (like a Super Walmart but smaller) we went back to our place. Céline let us wash laundry here and like every place we have visited, they use a clothes line (or rack in some places) to dry the clothes. In general, France seems to be more green than the US in how they use energy and recycle.
We had dinner and Cal finally got what he was hoping for all week, to play Nintendo Switch with Céline’s husband, Cyril and the other kids.