Laura and Benoît Take a Trip to the Beach

Lately, I often find myself thinking about my childhood memories and pondering the famous question we all ask ourselves at one point or another : Where the heck did the time go?  I can recall my Dad frequently asking this question and my Mom responding with, of course, a very logical response.  "Well if you think that one second goes like 'that' (here she would snap her fingers) and there are sixty of these in a minute and there are sixty minutes in an hour and twenty-four hours in a day..."  If you think about, it all makes sense, but you cannot help having the impression that time is flashing before your eyes.  

While looking at recent pictures that I've taken here in France and doing a bit of brainstorming for this blog, I giggle to myself when I came up with the title, "Laura and Benoît Take a Trip to the Beach."  It's like a Berenstain Bears book!  I think between Aaron and I, we have completed most of The Berenstain Bears collection, which is somewhere in the basement holding on to its "sentimental value" underneath all of the dust.  Here are some of the titles I particularly remember:

    

And now here is my own version :

Laura and Benoît Take a Trip to the Beach

After having passed all of her final exams, Laura decided to surprise her fiancé, Benoît, and join him at the beach.  Benoît is a stone mason and works hard on a beautiful stone mansion on the seaside. 

Benoît, the stone mason

When Laura finally arrived, she called Benoît on the telephone to tell him that there was a surprise for him waiting on the shore.  

And all of a sudden there was Laura, jumping joyfully into the arms of her future beloved husband.  

Because they are young and in love, they sometimes act rather silly!

 They spent the entire afternoon playing in the sun and looking at bridal magazines that Laura's Mom and Dad and their friend Molly had sent to her all the way from the United States! (of course Benoît was thrilled...)

They stayed until sunset, when they knew it was time to go home.  They were sad to leave such a beautiful place, but knew they would be leaving together to go back to their provencal home in Northern France where they would live happily ever after.

THE END 

(but not really...it's just the beginning!)