While this rain was falling yesterday, it was snowing like fury up in the mountains. Very old houses like most of the country places around here. Most have electric lights, but no other improvements, although they are going to have waterworks soon. Are now piping the town. Just like they were built a hundred years ago.
Relatives are real nice and friendly.
Visited the little church of St. John the Baptist. He helped me to look up old parish records of the family. He visited relatives in each of the towns in the valley. Chamonix, now a famous ski resort is four miles farther on, and then Argentiers. Argentiers is where the two mountain ranges that make the valley join.