Chevagny And The Illegal Alien Twins

Last Saturday morning very early we left the apartment and headed to Gare de Lyon to board the TGV Train for our trip to the village of Chevagny (pop: approximately 71) to play for our friends Fred and Claudia's wedding which was a French Civil Ceremony.  I suspect most of the village turned out for it and we sang "When I Say I Do" which is a Clint Black song that we thought fit the occasion.  After being pretty much in the city for well over 5 months arriving in Chevagny was sort of like having an epiphany of sorts.  We rode the TGV Train from Paris' Gare de Lyon to Le Creusot where Fred and Claudia picked us up.  Chevagny is around 400 kilometers from Paris and it was a 25 minute drive from Le Creusot to get there so Le Creusot is about 25 km from Chevagny.  The TGV got to Le Creusot in about an hour and 15 minutes so let's just say that we were MOVIN.  I'm guessing it was around 250 mph.  We've never been anywhere on the ground going that fast and of course Kian slept pretty much the whole way.  The train was real quiet too as it's electric.  SNCF has TVG trains that go all over France and other parts of Europe.  Hmmmmmmm........why isn't this happening in the USA????????????

Let's just say that after a long weekend of playing music, wine, food, and the warmth of the people from the village we're pretty inclined to want to live there one day in the future.  It was a wondrous weekend for us all.  We have over 400 megs of photos taken and I'm attaching a link to this post so whoever is reading this can see where we've been.

Sorry it took so long to get this posted.  Cassie and and the rest of us have been laboring to get all of the forms, documents, photos, attestations and everything else ready for her trip back to the French Consulate and another audience with the Great And Powerful Oz there to get Kian and Niall's residency status locked in here as they still just have their passports which after 90 days here make them not legally here without what is called a "Carte de Sejour" AKA "Legal Residency Card" which is essentially a French Green Card.

Of course this involves more forms and paperwork than either me or Cassie went through to join the military way back when and even with everything in order there's a strong possibility that the Great And Powerful Oz might think of something else we need that we never knew we needed so it's been busy times around here.

Cassie has been on vacation and we've been "tourists" ourselves in Paris the last week or so but have learned that trying to do that here in August when EVERYONE ELSE who's a tourist is also here has convinced us that we'll see the rest of the sights and museums after Fall is in full swing here and the Summer crowds are gone.

I do have a list of other blog entries I need to make about a host of topics and will do so with much more regularity in the future.

Love to all everywhere and thanks as always for caring enough about us to read these posts.

A bientot!

Sid

PS
Here's the link to our Chevagny photos:
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