As a good tourist, I went today to the statue of liberty and Ellis Island. It was raining but hey, at least I had room in the boat... The statue is quite impressive but since she is closed to the public I think it's not worth stopping on the island. / En bon tourist je suis alle voir la statue de la liberte et Ellis Island. Il pleuvait mais bon, au moins j'avais de la place dans le bateau... La statue est plutot impressionnante mais etant fermee au public, s'arreter sur l'ile ne vaut pas vraiment le coup. 

New York map: Manhattan is in the center, with New Jersey on the west, Queens on the east, and Brooklyn in the south/east. See the purple star on the map? That's where we live: Brooklyn Heights. The green star shows where christy studies, the yellow, where I work and the blue, where she might do her internship. Overall, we spend about 1h15mn in the subway everyday which is not that bad, for now. We'll see when it's 90 degrees with more than 50 % humidity... / Voici une carte de New York avec Manhattan au centre, New Jersey a l'ouest, Queens a l'est et Brooklyn au sud-est. L'etoile violette sur la carte montre ou on habite: Brooklyn Heights. La verte, c'est la ou Christy etudies, la jaune, la ou je travaille, et la bleue, la ou elle fera peut-etre son stage. Dans l'ensemble, on fait 1h15 de metro par jour, ce qui n'est pas si terrible, pour l'instant. On verra quand il fera 30 degres avec plus de 50 % d'humidite... 

Surfing Internet from the garden: the best!! 

Our first barbecue and house warming party. The Tuck-like supersized dog is Mitsy. / Notre premiere barbecue party et pendaison de cremaillere. L  

During the BBQ party, we actually used for the first and last time this year the "eternal summer" heating lamp. The thing works great and actually I wonder if we couldn't kill mosquitos like that... something I'll have to try. 

Gardening in our "immense" patio... ;)   / Jardinage dans notre patio "immense" ;)

Michel and Mado, 2 new happy owners in Noailhac (250 people town in the center of France.)