..and another rock.
That’s where we were the weekend before school started – a little stone village in a narrowing part of a valley where the rock faced mountains almost meet right next to the 400 year old settlement. The name is Entrepierres – literally ‘between the rocks’ – and it really is.
![dinner with a view](https://i0.wp.com/pardonourfrench.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_1934-333x500.jpg?resize=333%2C500&quality=89)
We spent a long weekend with our good friends the Ball family right before school started. It was a fantastic few days of relaxing, swimming, hiking and just spending time together.
The kids had a great time playing – and they swam on days that seemed quite windy, cool and cloudy to the adults – but they didn’t seem to care. They were seven kids, with a pool, in a beautiful place, and they didn’t seem to notice &/or care when their lips turned blue.
It was a really great way to end the summer and get ready for school (which started the morning after we got home)
![tri-ominos!](https://i0.wp.com/pardonourfrench.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_1974-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=89)
In some ways it seems unreal that these friends – and others we have met here – we have only known for two years. When we drive we never seem to have our own kids with us – just some combination – and we hope that the other car has the remaining collection of offspring.
![crepes](https://i0.wp.com/pardonourfrench.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_1970-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=89)
The funny thing about having our two families together is not just that there are eight kids in total – but that it seems like there’s not really that many of them. The kids are all pretty close in age – and they all play so well together that we often notice that in some ways it easier to have all eight than just our four.
![all 8 kids](https://i0.wp.com/pardonourfrench.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2010-333x500.jpg?resize=333%2C500&quality=89)
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