- Food shopping: this morning, Becca T and I went to the grocery store and the market. I love foreign food products. My current obsession = Orangina Light. I'm seriously going to drink a big bottle of that a day, I know it.
- Buying a baguette at a boulangerie then proceeding to make it my lunch and dinner. With some Brie, of course.
- Eating lunch on the beach near where Becca's taking French classes. During her class, I could have gone for a walk or done a number of things, but I was quite content sitting on a rock staring into the Mediterranean.
- Taking the scenic route back to Becca's and seeing some neat parts of Nice like the Promenade des Anglais, a beautiful park with palm trees, and the, ahem, shopping area.
- Finishing dinner by splitting a giant chocolate bar and having tea. Becca had to go to a work thing tonight, and that gives me some downtime to catch up on internet-y things and even post some pictures from my trip. When she comes back, we're going to drink some wine, and maybe even eat more chocolate.
Our last view of Paris as we chilled on the steps of the Pantheon.
View of Nice from a staircase at Becca's school.*
This is how I spent my afternoon.
Palm Trees!
A fountain in downtown Nice. Some sort of demonstration was going on around it.*Getting this picture was painful. BT told me to go up this staircase to get a great view of Nice. However, there was some dude smoking on the landing above me. As I was enjoying the view, I felt something hot on my head, and could smell burning hair. He'd dropped cigarette ash onto my head! I wanted to yell swear words at him, but I wanted him effing-well understand what I was saying, and I couldn't think of how to curse in French. Plus, I wanted to get the damned stuff off my head before it burned a bald spot into my scalp. It hurt, and I lost a clump of hair. All I could do was get to the beach ASAP to make everything better. And then it was.
Tomorrow will be another nice day in Nice. :) I'm loving this trip.
ps Wes - we saw another one of your doppelgangers today. No pictures yet because those guys are too fast for one of us to get out a camera! I should always be on the ready...
4 comments:
So sorry about the hair. I hope it isn't too noticeable. Otherwise you'll have a weird conversation next week at school.
Student: Hi Miss Christielli, how was your March break?
You: Oh wonderful. Went to France. Ate some cheese. Let some french guy set my head on fire. Same ol' same ol.
Didn't you ever see Grease? Rizzo swears in French....oh wait maybe it's not French....I don't know! You should have just pointed to your flaming head and given the guy the finger, that's a universal sign :)
PS LOVE the pics! It looks sooo beautiful there!
lol, you need to be much quicker with your camera, I want to see what you are talking about. And why do I have so many doppelgangers in France, I have no French descent in me.
Have fun. :)
Your trip sounds very interesting and the pics are great. I have spent a lazy afternoon or 2 sitting by the waves. Enjoy it.
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