An epic adventure happened, that's what

Not quite... it just so happened that 3 Steemians are within driving distance, so we planned a Steemeetup. I'm copyrighting that term, it's mine now. Nobody can use it without my permission. 

Anyhow, so I'm here in France for a "non-profit" house construction project, and @heimindanger and @french.fyde are also here. Since they are French. They live in France. Therefore, we are in the same place. Which means we are able to meet. Hence, we met up.

We decided to do a BBQ

How fucking boring, I know right? Well, it gets better. We actually did it in the middle of a forest. Since @french.fyde owns a small garden that somehow is located within that forest, and we had the BBQ in his garden (I might not have written a stranger sentence). 

I know my posts are usually very wordy, so this time I'll try something new and let the pictures do the talking! 

In which case, I'm not sure if I'll be happy if this post performs better than my previous ones, since that might mean that my writing is so shitty that I can only get some kind of results by using pictures...

So if I skip all the boring travel and logistic details, we finally made it to our locale, and I did mention that we were doing the BBQ in a forest so --

That was the path we took to walk into the forest. I used an iPhone photo app to edit all the pictures I took today, and I'm happy to report that I might understand what it feels like to be an insecure girl in her pre-teens now.

@french.fyde's garden. You can see him "gardening" off in the distance over there. 

I'm not sure what these are, like tomatoes or whatever. If any of you have any idea, please go ahead and educate me.

Busy bee pic I snapped while waiting for them to setup the BBQ pit. I was slacking off because I'm a lazy bastard.

BBQ pit setup in progress...

All done, and ready to cook. Sadly, we overcooked the beef since we were too busy talking and drinking like alcoholics. 

Photo I snapped of our French friend who tagged along (this not @heimindanger or @french.fyde, just a friend we brought along to help us with the BBQ since we're all lazy). He fashions himself as the French version of rednecks. 

EDIT: Actually, my bad, apparently he does have a Steemit account but he's inactive @fayetristan

After the food/drinks, we decided to go explore the forest! We didn't go too deep in. Pics are pretty good, if I do say so myself. The experience wasn't too bad either, but there was too much cow dung and temperatures were close to 40 °C  since our area was hit by a heatwave.

A much needed break from the grind

I'm glad I was able to take a break from the work to come here and connect with friends and fellow Steemians. Maybe you think it doesn't mean much since I'm my own boss, but honestly I have other things to do, and I just decided to put things on hold while I took this trip to help a friend with something. 

I think it's important to take a break from whatever it is you're doing sometimes. Give your mind a break to think about other things. So far, I've spent a lot of time during this trip thinking of what I want to achieve in the next couple of years, reflecting on what's important to me, and also just taking some time to enjoy nature and the countryside.

I hope you guys are not too caught up to take a break like this every now and then!

I personally enjoyed taking these photos and writing this post, although it's very different from what I'm used to posting. Let me know if you liked it!