Hotel Palais Cardinal Saint-Emilion

... that had its own 4star hotel and reception area. I decided not to taste anymore wine (Feeling a little queasy) but Chris enjoyed the second wine tasting greatly. He said these wines were drier but still very good. We were running late so we hopped back on the bus for the trip back into town.

The tour was 6 hours in all (mostly driving) so by the time we got back into town we were starving! We hadn’t eaten since breakfast so we were ...

... t et Chandon while we celebrated with the newlyweds. Finally about 6:30 things came to an end. Hervé and Helen left for their honeymoon and most of the rest of us were invited to the Bernals’ home for a lasagna dinner. After dinner, Daniel and Cindy Harper showed slides of their recent trip to Thailand which they had very much enjoyed. It was another very pleasant occasion, and a fine end to a wonderful day.

... on the quality of the fruits and vegetables. Things must be just ripe and at their best, not picked a week early for shipment somewhere. As a result the salads and raw vegetables served with vinaigrettes of various kinds are wonderful. I made a meal of the salad bar and was quite content.

After dinner I worked on preparing the sermon I will give tomorrow. And I decided to make an early night of it. As I was working I received a text message from my good friend ...

... Mr. Mrs. Bernal were there too, we had a very enjoyable evening, catching up on news, comparing notes about the recent convention we had in Normandy and planning for the future. French dinner can last quite a while, but several of us were tired from the day's activities so we finished the meal at around 9:00 pm, and went our separate ways; looking forward to meeting again soon.

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Charline et Jeremy

Well, this will be my last entry. I was hoping to have updated more than i did, but i also thought i'd have far more internet than i did! Oh well, i think you've all got a picture of what it was like over here and i'm sad and ready to come back. here's a few more pics to leave you with and i'll be sure to let everyone see all 1,000 pictures we took! See you all soon!

Au revoir!!

We spent our first day in Bordeaux relaxing and wandering around the city. Ate a few baguettes.

The next day we caught a train to St Emilion to check out the beautiful little village.

On our last day we did a wine tour of Medoc ...

... too. We also bought some Merlot Jelly, which turned out to be more like Merlot jam, but we ate it all, anyway.

We had lunch in a restaurant with several families with kids, where the criteria was that your kids had to scream at full volume, as much as possible. The food was nice, though.

... it was. plus Deb has convinced me of the charms of Ballack :D hahaha. I only watched the first half of the game, Spain scored a good goal - the place went wild - it had a good ambience :) then met up with the girls from BLS again to do some more wine tasting, and watched a light show and the FIREWORKS... aaahhh sooo phenomenal - the finale was just a series of golden rays breaking up the inky blackness of the night sky. :) what a perfect way to end my first day in Bordeaux :)

... drumului, si nu realizez cand am ajuns in "la place des restaurants", hotarul in care masinile, locurile de parcare si butucii de vie traiesc in armonie. Aici incepe de fapt Saint Emilion. Urc pe strazi inguste, pietruite, marginite fie de zidurile ocru ale caselor sau curtilor, fie de tigla rosie a acoperisurilor cladirilor din fata, caci sistematizarea medievala a dorit ca asezarea sa pastreze forma unui amfiteatru roman. Imi dau seama ca pentru cei 27 Km2 de muzeu in aer liber ...