Day 10: Views and Schools

Our dear friends, Phil and Grace, have provided an amazing "Room with a View".  While Dan and Ben are staying closer to Grenoble at Chris Mackanic's apartment, the Willson's have put us in their guest bedroom, and the view from the window closely resembles what we looked out on for 2 years...the French Alps...called the Belledonne.  At first a few low lying clouds...

 The clouds started to lift by about 10am...

 By 10:30 an even clearer view with yet cloud covered peaks...

 Until by 11 or so, when they clouds fully lifted and the crest of the mountain range became visible...their porch was the perfect spot to ponder, pray and worship the God of all Glory and of all creation!  As we were Skyping with Jim and Christine, we were able to turn the netbook in such a way that they got to see the panorama spread out before us..technology is buck sometimes....

 We made part of the day one of retracing the walk Ben had to make to his elementary school...uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes...or so they say..but first a show of collegiate support from the bros...

 Just outside Ben's school was an amazing view of his travelling hat, I mean of the mountain peak called the Dent de Crolles...primarily because if you look over Ben's left shoulder, in the background you can see the peak that looks just like a molar...and it is above the town of Crolles...thus...

 Finding our way from our old house, after what seemed like miles to him back in the day, and was actually about 600 yards...we arrived at his Ecole Primaire...where he enjoyed 2nd and 3rd grades playing marbles and soccer (Billes and futbol) for the francophiles among you...oh and it really was uphill both ways...

I will need to add photos of our friends, and for the remainder of the evening we enjoyed a great meal, conversation...discussion about puritan writers, John Piper, the Lord's goodness, and old episode of Columbo which they love and other shared joys...so by 1am when I finally dropped the men at their apartment, I returned home to a sleeping house at 1:30..and promptly hit the hay....Tomorrow (which is today as I'm writing) could be Chartreuse Visit day:)))