A few things we have done lately...
On Friday of last week, we went to the Resistance and Deportation Museum of Lyon with two other assistants. Lyon was the capital of the French Resistance movement during World War II and the museum is located in former Nazi torture Headquarters in Lyon. Afterwards we rode bikes along the Rhone river down to Parc Gerland, near Lyon's big soccer stadium, and had a picnic.
Today Doug and I went to the museum at the Lumiere Institute. The Lumiere brothers, the inventors of modern cinema, were from Lyon. Their family's art deco mansion holds the museum. I liked the peacock ceiling lights (look carefully) in the winter garden room.
An early magic lantern
Doug in front of the mansion
Tomorrow we leave for a retreat at the church camp for francophone Europe. There will be about 150 people there from churches in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Thursday is a holiday (Ascension), so most people also get Friday off work, so the retreat is Wednesday night through Saturday.
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