L'Isle d'Yeu: France week 11

It's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I'm finished here. I board a plane in the morning, and I'm off...

But that's for another blog post. ;)

L'Isle d'Yeu. (Pronounced Lil djew)

The whole week, I couldn't stop thinking that my mother would LOVE this place. It's so cute. Honestly, my mom would've been totally in her element.

This is an island off the Western coast(in my previous posts I kept saying the Eastern coast. Oops. Directionally challenged). It's really well preserved, so it's just this quaint little place. None of the cars are newer than 15 years old, but almost no one drives cars anyway. Everyone gets around by bike. And really, it's a pretty small island. You can drive across the whole thing in 30 minutes, length wise.

We logged 53 miles on our bikes this week. That's a hecka lot of miles.

E's and my tandem bike.

This was the first time that there were no lessons we had to run the kids to. With much less of an agenda, it was nice to know that we would try to do certain things in one day, but if we didn't get to it all, it was okay.

We visited a farm one day, and helped herd sheep, we visited a ton of little hidden beaches, we ate a lot of crepes, visited a few adorable markets(my favorite thing about France!), visited a light house, and mostly just rode our bikes everywhere.

The little light house we visited.

The most beautiful little beach we found. 

With only a few exceptions, every house looked like this one. 

This week felt like it rushed past. As we were on the boat back to the mainland yesterday, I thought back to the boat trip to the island a little over a week earlier. And I couldn't believe it had already been over a week.

In fact, I can't believe I've been here almost 3 months. I can't believe I'm leaving tomorrow. I'm definitely looking forward to school and seeing my family and friends, but I'm seriously going to miss this family, and I'll definitely miss Paris. When we drove into the city last night, my heart leaped and I realized that I'd missed the actual city so so much this past month that we've been gone.

And I can't wait til I can come back. :)