Okay, this is the last South of France post, I promise! Here is a little video of the entire trip…
The song used in the video is You and I by Ingrid Michaelson.
(Read about all of the adventures here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5)
Dinner and A Movie
November 9, 2013 By 3 Comments
One of Hannah’s and my favorite thing to do is pick up dinner and watch a movie. The other night, we were trying to decide where to go to dinner…and we just couldn’t make a decision (not that that’s a new thing for us…we usually can never decide!) Our conversation started off the usual way with…
Hannah: Where do you want to go for dinner?
Caroline: I don’t know. Where do you want to go for dinner?
Hannah: I don’t know. All I know is I’m hungry.
Caroline: Me too.
Then, we narrowed down all of our choices to two. We couldn’t decide between Holy Cow, our local burger place (way better than Five Guys or In ‘N Out if I dare say so) or pizza. Super healthy, I know. And then our conversation took a turn and Hannah suggested that we list the pros and cons. It was a brilliant idea because then we would actually be able to make a decision and satisfy our hungry tummies.
Hannah: Okay the pros for burgers: 1. It’s a shorter walk
Caroline: 2. COOP is on the way so we can pick up chocolate for dessert.
Hannah: I have a con…we will eat fries.
Caroline: But, since we are getting take-out…they give us less fries than we would normally eat if we ate there. Pro.
Hannah: Okay 3 pros and 1 con. Now for Pizza.
Caroline: Con 1. We ate there last night.
Hannah: 2. They’ll recognize us.
Caroline: 3. We are probably eating there at group dinner tomorrow.
Hannah: 4. We have to walk up that huge hill. Any pros??
Caroline: Pizza is good.
Hannah: Okay so 3 cons and 1 pro.
That meant burgers for dinner. Well, guess what. We got all the way to Holy Cow and it was closed! Because it was Sunday. Duh (insert facepalm here)…just about everything is closed on Sunday. Luckily, the pizza place wasn’t closed though. So, in the end…we ate at the pizza place 3 nights in a row, they did recognize us, and we had to walk up the major hill. Oh well…can’t win them all!
And then we got home and had to decide on a movie.
Hannah: What movie do you want to watch?
Caroline: I don’t know what do you want to watch?
Hannah: I don’t know.
Caroline: I think I’m feeling like a funny movie.
Hannah: Have you seen Bridesmaids??
Caroline: No, not yet.
Hannah: WHAT?! Not only is it funny…but it’s about weddings! How have you not seen that? Okay we are watching it.
So, we did. We ate our pizza and watched Bridesmaids and had chocolate for dessert. And she was right…it was hilarious and also very quotable in every day life, which gets bonus points in my book!
Despite the hiccups, we still had a fun time!
South of France: Day 5
November 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
On day 5 in the South of France in France, we only had the morning to do a little more touring because later that afternoon we were heading back to school. Back to the real world. Back to midterms. (Spoiler alert: I survived midterm week…but barely!)
We started off the morning visiting an ancient bridge in Avignon…apparently here is where they would sing the song “sur le pont d’Avignon on y danse…” and dance on the bridge (Haven’t heard the song? Me neither, but apparently it’s famous and I was one of the few who didn’t know it!)
And then our friend David asked to take a cheesy picture of Hannah and me holding hands looking off into the distance…
And then we headed to the Palais de Papes, and in English that means The Pope’s Palace. Back in the day, the Popes lived in Avignon in this grand palace. Unfortunately, all of the cool rooms forbid photography so I couldn’t take a picture of the Pope’s bedroom or of the amazing frescos we saw throughout the building. The only rooms left of the palace we could take pictures of were hallways…nothing exciting so instead I took pictures of the outside! Pretty cool huh?
^^The boys bought swords at the gift shop. And they play fought all throughout the streets. They crack me up!
After touring the palace, we had lunch and wandered around the town. And guess what happens when we have free time and we have seen all the sights…we shop and then I see a fluffy cozy scarf that matches my snow boots perfectly so how in the world was I supposed to pass that up? And then we run into a churro stand where the guy is making them fresh in front of us so how in the world was I supposed to pass that up? I didn’t pass either of them up.
Then, it was time to jump on the train back to Lausanne. A lot of us tried (and we really did try) to do homework…but most of us passed out. I got about six pages into my history textbook before falling asleep. We were all exhausted after our field trip, but we had so much fun! I can’t wait for our EFT next semester! Want to guess where we are going? I’ll tell ya…TURKEY! Yay!
