Walks, Horses, Fields and a Montana License Plate 3 September

We continue to look for walking places for Cody to run and enjoy his life. Just up the street seems to be perfect. He can run off leash, kids can bike, puddles appear after a rain, vineyards are on the right, a throwing and fetching field is on the left and on the next ridge up ahead is the biggest wine barrel ever seen! Saturday Cody and the kids enjoyed the puddles of mud, while I enjoyed an afternoon of a tired Cody.

Today’s driving outing led us via Mazie’s maps, to the pet store and a new town, Sommieres. At the pet store I was trying to let the cashier know that I speak English not French, because I still do not understand French after 4 weeks. Instead of letting her know, I told her to speak English…I didn’t even realize it until I was back in the car…so RUDE of me. She responded well and in English. For this I was grateful and even more so now that I have realized my gross error. We headed to Sommieres to see a bridge because it was only 20 minutes away. On our drive there we found ourselves behind a Ford Ranger truck with a Montana license plate in the rear window. A little bit of home for us.

Sommieres has a Saturday market scene, which we will visit another day. Google maps, not Mazie Maps, got us turned around and we ended up in a neighborhood with tiny roads and a barricade at the bottom. My reverse manual driving skills were put to the test, along with tight squeeze driving. The picture does not demonstrate depth nor width well.

Around 6pm we headed up the street to visit and learn about horse riding lessons. I am thankful Randy can speak, listen AND converse in French. (I have written this before.) The entire 70 minute introduction and getting to know you was all French and through Randy. We even gathered escaping ponies while we were seeing the center. Mazie will begin Wednesday morning, before school. The entire lesson will be in French so Randy will have a briefing of French horse vocabulary before then with Mazie. After horse, Zach headed on his bike to another field and threw a round of discs.