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Family week, part three

August 30th, 2009 — 9:36pm

On friday, Jade left

Jade

zoe et maman

and the kids went blackberry-hunting again
mures

Saturday, market day

Zoe and Alice got some necklaces

alice

Sebastien cooked some courgettes
sebastien

Lara and Galilée went into the freezing swimming pool… i took other photos where you can see them better but i like this big splash.

lara et galilee

lara et galilee

babou

my beautiful Babou

Alice

zoe

theotime

running

jeanne

the ball isn’t in the frame : )

theotime

Sunday. Ride to the trainstation with Thomas and Augustin

smoke

thomas says byeBye bye Babou…

Now i’m back in Paris. for a couple days. on tuesday i’m going to Perpignan and i might meet the MJR people there… photojournalism festival “Visa pour l’image”

Cheers

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Family week, part two

August 27th, 2009 — 11:24pm

Tuesday started like this :

grand père

he thought the garden was a much nicer place to shave. we had breakfast next to him and it was fun.

concert

my father did a little concert

theo

my brother invented some stories in the same place where i invented stories, 20 years ago…

nino

nino tried to beat the record of truck-eating in baby category…

thomas et la guepe

Thomas and Zoe caught some wasps

tower

yeah :)

and they were killed and cut in little pieces… they were feelig so guilty that they did a funeral

funeral

the wasps were buried between two trees

tombe

other wasps were buried there since then.

grand père

grand père avec une passoire

garde à vous

i love my grandfather :)

haricots

after lunch we did a race,

the race

the distance was 640 meters…

race

Unfortunately i wasn’t first (only 5th) so i didn’t get to photograph the arrival… Augustin Won, then Thomas, then Zoe, my Dad, and me… and then the rest.

everyone was so exhausted

aug et capucine

Nino’s mother Capucine : )

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alice

After that i was in the city doing my last blog entry

the next day, wednesday, i posed next to my tree, a lebanese cedar we planted in 1998… each grandkid has his own tree and i chose the cedar for obvious reasons. : )

I’m 1m78 (5′11″) so you can imagine how proud i am that it got so tall : )

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nino et jade

Everybody said goodbye to Nino and Capucine

jade et nino

Jade kisses her nephew

and everyone wants to carry him

Alice

Then we played cards and

babou

i think she will be mad at me for uploading this one :)

thomas

tennis

we had fun being very bad tennis players with my sister Jeanne and cousins Thomas and Augustin. well… the boys were bad because we were.

cards

(i admit i asked them to look serious)

papa

and here my father wasn’t sleeping, he just blinked. photos lie : )

On thursday (today) i didn’t take many shots except those blurry ones :

Lara

Guy (yes, his name is Guy) visited us. The kids were excited

kids

Jeanne, Thomas, Alice, Theotime, Augustin, Lara, Galilée and Zoé. Siblings and cousins.. i’m by far the oldest.

Aaand i’m in this bar again with my mom who has tons of work to send for translation, very clubbish ambiance.

maman

Goodnight ! And thank you for looking : )

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