Silence Hotel Chateau De Pizay Saint-Jean-d'Ardières

... in my life, and things not being perfect or in my control (which is my weakness and in my nature) that I am completely content with my life right now. Maybe its growing up some, maybe its learning from examples of others in my life what really matters or maybe I just naturally learned to accept the things I cannot change. Either way I am grateful that I have reached this place.

Right now the fire is crackling in the chimney as Virginie adds ...

... gelaterie. Lovely Lis could tell me what all the flavours I didn't know were, so that was handy!

After that we did some window shopping, visited a few other nice streets in Lyon and ate gorgeous little cakes at a posh chocolate shop. Yum! I had a rum soaked custard sponge tart topped with a raspberry and a square of devine chocolate gateaux topped with a chocolate coated almond. The lady bought over the whole silver platter filled with different tiny cakes and I selected ...

... to take a photo of!

Final stop of the day before arriving at our destination, was in a small town, where we had to buy the cheapest bottle of wine we could find, and we'd get one point for every Euro that it cost below 5 Euros. We did a pretty good job, finding 1L bottle for 1.25 Euros (roughly NZ$2.50!).

Again it was dark as we arrived in Macon, and after finding our way to the hotel and dumping out stuff in our ...

... the door its not there anymore. I am here right now and I owe it to the great family I am with to be “here” while I am here.

But unfortunately I cant ignore it all I want my body will remind me when it wants to. For example I am happy, don’t get me wrong, but I have found that with my friends lately I have been having trouble to keep my mood light. I hate when that happens because it takes more energy to be around people and ...

... key to a successful relationship. We were going to talk about issues as they occur rather than waiting until someone, or Virginie, blows up in my face and throws words like knives.

Its times like these I not only feel like a badass but I am also SO grateful I chose communications as my area of study in college (I feel SO sad saying that in the past tense, and old too). Communication is key to success in every aspect of a relationship ...

... and my classmates do. So, I am working on that.

What else? Well as most of you know Frances food doesn’t exactly agree with me. It never really has and delicious as it is, it may not ever. I am still in the normal transitional phase of my body adjusting to the food change, but I was forced to go to the doctor on Monday for my irritated stomach. To summarize my problem here I eat and ...

... a bad attitude and not wanting to be involved.

That’s really just the tip of the iceberg. I am not even going to get into the rest, but basically I have enough to deal with in my own personal life than to add everything else that their asking me to deal with. It’s so confusing and I feel like there is no way to make my feelings clear. They want me to tell them what I am unhappy ...

... with a war on each frontier. The war with perfection with the parents and the war of liberty with the child and how can I fight two wars at once? So what am I to do with my “sitch”. I mean right now dealing with Julie is not the issue, its dealing with the perfectionism with the parents. I mean should I deal with what they dole out simply because they are my boss? Or should my union labor spirit be released ...

... it was easier to walk to the ship than to find the taxi stand. Well, yes and no. It wasn't far, but it was hot out, and at the end of the bridge there were lots of stairs to wrassle our luggage down. We dumped our luggage, had a nice chat with the staff at reception, and headed into Place Bellecour for lunch at the Kiosque inh the middle of the place. We got 2 nice big salad Nicoise and water. Ed had forgotten to ...

... everyone was kinda awake and aware that there was other people ont he bus haha. We had the most beautiful view of the vineyards from the Chateau which was awome. We had a wine tasting before dinner, with more wine. I didnt' like the wine but I did taste it at least. For dinner we had ribs, they weren't the greatest but I still ate them. After dinner we had time to relax before heading to the Cave for the party. The cave is in the basement of the Chateau and ...