Vacances!

Bonjour!


To start off my two week spring vacation we went to Pierre's Moms house in the country. The house is a typical French country house- huge, beautiful and surrounded by sheep (and really nothing else). We were there with Pierre's sister (Anne), her son (Remi), Pierre's Mom and her cat (chat une). The cats name translates into cat one!

Anne is such a good cook and the food was amazing!! I don't remember everything we had but here's a list of what I can remember:

-Pasta with Caviar and a creamy sauce

-Apple Pie

-Foie Gras

-Rice pudding

-Steak

The boats we took in the cave

During the days we would go on a run, play board games, eat a HUGE lunch and then drive to a nearby town to explore! FYI- Nearby means like 40 minutes minimum! One day we went to Le Gouffre de Padirac. Gouffre is translated into abyss or chasm but basically it was just the coolest whole in the ground ever. We weren't allowed to take pictures but I took a few and I took some off of the website.We all decided not to take the elevator and walk down the stairs instead. According to Wikipedia the cave is 338 feet deep! Walking down to the cave was easy but when Lea and I decided to run up the stairs that was a bit more difficult. 

Inside the Gouffre

Halfway down the cave!

We were both super sore the next day, when we went to Rocamadour!

This village is built at the bottom of a cliff and there is a huge church built into the side of the cliff. We didn't enter the church but we got to walk on the roof and look down onto the village! The village and churches were sites of religious pilgrimages so on the walk down to the village from the church there are little stone boxes that have pictures of scenes from the Bible. Remember how I said we were both super sore? Yeah, well the elevator costs money to go down from the church to the village and up from the village to the church! So Lea, Pierre and I decided to race up to the car (which was parked by the church) from the village. We succeeded on running for about 30 seconds and then decided to walk the rest!

The next day we left and returned to Toulouse for the rest of vacation. During the week I went and saw Hunger Games with Lea and then Titanic with a friend! Saturday Nadia, Lea and I went to the gym to try out an Aquabike class! It was really fun but not that hard of a workout so we decided to not end up taking the class. We tried another class called "BodyAttack" which was much harder! It was also super hard to understand because the instructor was talking in French, and all the music was in English! The teacher kept on looking at me because it was obvious that I was having a hard time understanding but other than that it was really fun!

I start school on Monday and Lea leaves Sunday morning for Chicago for 10 days!

I'll update again soon!