Hello. This will be a rather quick update since I'm catching a train in a hour to go to Nice for the weekend.
The weekend of May 8th-10th was spent in northern France in a small town near the town of Vannes. It was one of the best times I've had so far in France.
We left Thursday evening (after my classes) and we had to take three cars in order to get all of us there (we were 14 in all. 5 french, 1 british, 1 irish, 7 americans). Along the drive we stopped and had a picnic/dinner at a rest stop. We'd packed chips, sandwiches, drinks and cookies, ect. We didn't arrive at the cabin until around 1am friday morning. So we basically made our beds, gossiped a while and then went to bed. Elodie's cabin is awesome. There aren't a lot of neighbors and all the houses surrounding us were huge summer houses. Its also located right by the beach and one of the most huge castles in France. Her house came fully loaded with plenty of beds (including bunk beds), bicycles for all, picnic tables in the back yard, BBQ grill, sea kayaks, everything! I've decided I want a weekend get-away cabin like that when I get older.
Friday, our first day we woke up to a huge breakfast before spending the day at the beach. At the beach we enjoyed some beach volleyball, sea kayaking (it was my first time sea kayaking) and laying around soaking up the sun. The weatherman had predicted that it was going to being rainy, bad weather for us all weekend, but actually it turned out to be was nothing but sunshine. When we finally returned home we sat down for a huge BBQ dinner. In the evening we sat around chatting and playing games. Some of the boys played botchy ball and some others went for bicycle rides to the Castle down the road.
Saturday we took a ferry boat to the Ile d'Arz and spent the day walking around the entire island, soaking up some sun, having a picnic and playing more volleyball. After leaving the island we drove to Vannes and explored the town. In the evening we went to a Creperie restaurant which made both dinner crepes and dessert crepes. They were awesome.
Sunday morning we spent cleaning the entire cabin (so we'll be able to come back again sometime hopefully) and then we had a huge american breakfast including hashbrowns, bacon, eggs, pancakes, ect. Then headed into Sarzeau to visit a famous biscuterie (cookie store) where we tried all the free samples we could get our hands on. In the evening we jumped in the cars and headed back to Angouleme.
Monday was Nalleli's last day so we had a slumber party at the LISA tower. Tuesday was work. Wednesday we had a large BBQ at Elodie's to eat up all the left over food and alcohol from the weekend in the North. Thursday was school (boring). I can't remember what I did this weekend but I think I did a lot of reading and laundry. Tuesday Natalie and me went to watch a movie at the cinema (Angels and Demons).
Last night we had a huge BBQ at Emilie's house for Matt's going away party. It was so much fun. We literally kidnapped Matt off the street. He had no idea we were throwing him a party. We had some friends wearing nylons over there heads grab him and throw him into a camper (I was in the camper watching it all go down). We'd covered his head so he wouldn't know who was there and tied him up. We only spoke in spanish the entire time so he actually was freaked out thinking he'd been kidnapped. It took us about 25 mins to drive to Emilie's house which is outside of town so by the time we got there he was a little shakin' up and completely clueless to why everyone he knew was standing around laughing at him. It was one of the best kidnappings I've seen (not that I've seen a lot).
Today is a holiday so I didn't have to work. And now I must go in order to catch a train to Nice. I'll try to make sure to write everyday while I'm in Nice. LoveYa.
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