This is the lovely town of Blois. We had probably my favorite meal of the trip. Squab stuffed with rabbit, roasted root vegetables and a pumpkin pudding. Not very seasonly appropriate- but the day was rainy and it seemed right. The boys had a very good white fish and this was our view. Very lovely. We then went to the chateau. Which was a little crazy. Alma had done the research about what we chateaus were worth visiting. When looking at the map I read off names to him and when I read Blois he said yes that was it. But he really wanted Amboise- but he couldn't hear the difference with his non French ears. We drove by Amboise on our way here- it looked nice from a distance. Alma can still barely hear the difference between the two words. So the city of Blois was nice the chateau a little surreal. It is right in the center of town. We enjoyed exploring the city before and after lunch.

We really enjoyed wandering around this lovely little park.

Some other highlights- one of my favorite downtown pedestrian shopping areas, the boys loved the blockades that blinked and disappeared in the ground, and this "spy passage" that we went down during our eternal search for the PNB Paribus because we were in desperate need of money. Coen was really into spies and knights during the trip. Everything was a spy passage, he spoke into these little High School Musical sweat bands like they were his communication device to home base. They followed us home and still make the odd appearance.

When we left the chateau we walked across the courtyard to this magic museum that had Dragons making noise and moving around. This went on for a while before they disappeared back into the building. Very strange town.