As planned, Suzanne and Jean Michel Schmidt come to our hotel at 7:00pm to get us, and rain is falling hard enough to require umbrellas. As not planned, they have prepared dinner and will not allow us to take them to a restaurant. They have cremant from Bordeaux because they know we have been there. Then they open Pinot Gris. Main course is rolled pork wrapped in a pastry crust served with green leaf salad. Jean Michel makes traditional vinaigrette of Dijon mustard, Melfor vinegar, oil, minced shallots, salt, pepper, etc. Dessert is ice cream loaf covered with meringue.
After dinner they drive us to a building converted into a community center where Jean Michel goes to paint every Monday in an upstairs room. They show us his art and Christmas greetings he helped produce for the town.
They insist we visit a friend of theirs who has collections of old things bigger and better than Eco Musee, so they call him and make the plan to take us Thursday afternoon. They also phone Marie Jeanne and set a plan for us to have lunch with her tomorrow, but she will cook, not go to a restaurant. Busy, happy days!
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