Sunday at Hotel Rabelais

This was Sunday a full week ago - the day we got our new car!  Car, climbing, and yoga photos will be up next.  

But that first day, after climbing and yoga in the park, we took our gutsy Toyota Prado on a spin to Hotel Rabelais for lunch and a swim. 

 If you eat lunch, you swim for free, but being a fancy French restaurant that wasn't cheap!  

Kailou ordered the special - pigeon! Not very appetizing to me but he thought it was an adventure and so did Jade.

My veggie buckwheat crepe was plenty exotic for me.

Thomas had an African dish with chicken and a side called "atieke" - fermented manioc - which I love and had our cook make since then.








Jade had an uneventful burger and fries but tasted the pigeon....










Swimming was lovely with cool clear water to wash off the desert heat and sand...  It's still rainy season so the heat will be turned up slowly for us, nothing serious yet... but the swim was still luxurious and lush...

A little circus yoga in the pool....

Dogon country motif ...  where they live in the cliffs.  We'll have photos of the real thing after driving there for Christmas... the new car is going to take us all over the country!