Le Mas du Loriot Lubéron

... much as I care for them, and that in itself makes being here priceless.

These last few weeks have I have gotten happier and happier which is hard for me to believe. Not because I am surprised that I am happy, but because I am surprised that I am happy with certain things in my life that would normally "ruin" my attitude. You know that people say not to question happiness but I find myself totally baffled at the fact that despite negative ...

... the UK. When I arrived Lis had cooked me an amazing 3 course french-themed dinner! I was so spolit by her the whole time I stayed, actually. It was so nice to see an old friend and completely relax in her company.

The next day I got up with Lis, who had to go in to university fairly early for classes. I headed to the Musee de Beaux Arts, via some great shops and a stop for a hot chocolate which came in a little jug and was so rich and dark I couldn't finish it! The museum was ...

... what is right for me, and my future, I can 100% say yes. I can be so sure because for some odd reason I cant wait for the 9 ˝ months I get to be pregnant. Some of you women maybe think I am crazy, and maybe I am because I don’t know yet, but I cant exactly explain the feeling I have about it. It’s the one thing in the world that makes be grateful to be a woman. Not because of the “power” we can yield with men, or the feminists ...

... his methods can be adapted a bit but I can now see that I was misreading his behavior. I although made it clear that I felt at times that he treated me as a $ sign and it hurt my feelings so he should take that into consideration.

We went on to talk about the things I had always hated to discuss, like asking for money, and how I felt uncomfortable just hanging out and doing nothing. We tackled every issue and all agreed that communication ...

... me putting everything out on the table.

So there is all that and more. School is going, its hard and I am feeling very challenged and surprisingly for me, lazy. So I am looking for the inspiration and motivation to stay focused in class. But for some reason with French, I struggle. Its ****ing hard to learn another language, and I gotta tell you, it ****** me off when I don’t get ...

... places in Lyon. Many of these places I am familiar with, which makes it even cooler.

I not only got to watch the first film, but I saw the very first camera ever created and stood where the film was taken; pretty much really cool. Turns out our little Thomas Eddison also gave a very helpful invention to the film as well. Thanks to him we were able to have the images spinning on a wheel ...

... touring France in the summer they sing every night in a different town and sleep at the house of locals. My parents volunteered to have two of them and our time with them was delightful. We of course attended the concert and had the surprise to see that the two boys we had at home were soloists: Celestin and Brieuc. Brieuc will attend 5th grade in the fall. I found some videos of him singing ...

... We then went to downtown Lyon as I had some glove shopping to do for Nepal. That was also the opportunity for Kristen to discover a little bit of the former capital of Gaule. Lyon is a very old town (much older than Paris) at the confluent of the Saone and Rhone rivers. There is lots to say about it, and if anybody is interested in knowing more about the second largest French city, I would recommend getting on wikipedia. But in a nutshell: it is known for Old ...

Itinerary : Praha - Kaiserslautern - Reims - Paris - Lyon Dates : 18th to 21st December 2007 Mileage in Europe : 2700 km Mileage so far : 23650 km. This time I can see and feel the end of the trip really approaching when we finally left the beautiful city of Praha, to hit the autobahn in Germany where we did the first stop of our 3 day ride to Paris. Kevin wanted to take the blue road on my map but I had to revise the route ...

... kind of like chicken even. As for the snails I couldn't bring myself to bite down on the snail, so I swallowed it whole. Others at them in pieces. The general consensus was that they were exceptionally chewy, and tasteless. The only taste came from the garlic butter they were soaked in. We had been told earlier by Renee that Lyon was the place to try all the traditional French foods, so with that in mind, we all studied the menu with great interest to ...