The white van made it! Way to go Kerri! The van shakes so hard when it idles, you'd think the engin was going to fly right out of the hood. Thankfully Kelsey discovered that if she puts her foot on a certain spot in the front seat it mostly stops. That's not disconcerting in the least.
Castle, spires and all. This place is gorgous. Something like 15 rooms. Monsieur de Cassennove lets ICCP use this place for free. He has 2 little room for himself, but other than that, we have run of the entire place. It's not a retreat center, it's his familty home. There are generations of portraits on the wall in the main dining room. The stone fireplaces are 400 years old and some of the chairs in the sitting room are from the 1970's and evrything else inbetween. I feel as though I could spend a month just soaking up the history here. It even has a secret passageway between the top towers. The far tower has a library with everything you could imagine. All the classics, Bibles, books on the history of the church and a huge stack of French plays. Again, if I had a week just to sit and read.
Our room, The Laughing Tomatos (Charlotte, Amanda and I) looks out over the whole valley. Amanda has the "floor bed" and Charlotte and I are sharing the "jello bed".
I arrived with the first group and prepared dinner with Amanda, Megan and Nathalie. Not many people came in the first group, so it was very relaxing just cooking and exploring the castle. With the 2nd group, I think we have 43 people here. Plus Monsieur de Cassannove, of course. He is so funny. He lets several groups stay during the year and the group before us was English. They had left some kind of dessert in the freezer. He pulled it out and asked us to eat it. Then went off on a little rant on how horrible it was that the English always mixed their sweets and savories.
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