French Alps - An Unusual Setting for a Family Reunion

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I think we would have said it was not exactly in the cards for Melissa's parents, siblings, and all 12 kids/cousins/grandchildren - all residents of Iowa just over 2 years ago -  to meet up in the French Alps for a family get together, but that is exactly what happened this week.

Melissa's brother and missionary family are in language training school in Albertville, France en route eventually to Togo, West Africa.   The rest of the family had an itch to meet up on the European continent before the next round of adventures takes us all somewhere else.   And while we're not down on   living or visiting Southern Germany at all,  the Rhone-Alpes region of France is in class all by itself.  


There were more landscape induced "Wows" per capita on this trip than any other place we've been.  

Whether it was green meadows above the French Alps.....

Or standing high above the Alps on the tip of Aguille du Midi.....

 Stopping at Fort de Taime for a photo with Mount Blanc in the background.....

Exploring Glaciers via ice caves near Chamonix....

Or playing beside a crystal blue remote Alpine lake....

This area is an incredibly beautiful place to meet up as a family and soak up a landscape like no other we have seen so far.