June 24

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Today was a rather relaxed day – yet again!! And since it was Sunday and France ceases to function on Sundays, that added to the do nothingness of the day.
We slept in – rather I stayed in my bed – until 9am, so that Sophie could sleep. Wasn’t that nice of me?? And for breakie we had another picnic on my bed…the res room here is kind of entertaining because it is so small and so…ulgh…in comparison to what I was used to!!
The plan was to rent another bike so that we could both go biking today, but when Sophie called the bike rental place, we found out that it too was closed. Go figure. Instead, we walked in the opposite direction from Toulouse Centre down the canals for about an hour. We made it to the South Port and spent a good little while looking through the garage-sale type market that was there. Sophie bought a really old book full of old comics and adds from 1929 and I almost bought this really beautiful porcelain doll…but decided that it wasn’t really that exciting to buy a doll like that from a garage sale. And bringing it home would not have been fun, either!! So, no dolls.
We walked back to Sophie’s place and I had a little nap while Sophie attempted to get a hold of Dani – because he has a fridge and therefore food for us starting people who have nothing!! So, finally at 3pm we were able to eat…it was an excellent sandwich, I must say!!
After our afternoon lunch we went to Toulouse. I borrowed Sophie’s roller blades and she biked. The blades were definitely not as nice as mine are and ended up hurting my feet by the end, but going on wheels rather than walking was a very nice change! He he he…and this morning at the garage sales I bought a helmet – a bright red helmet that is about 5 sizes too big for me. But Sophie and Dani didn’t have one, so I thought that for 1 Euro it was a decent investment!! And it was even new, so I added all the extra sponge things to make it fit my head a bit better. Not excellent, by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m happy to have one!!! Anyway, so blading with wrist guards and a red helmet downtown, dodging people everywhere was pretty funny!!
We went to our awesome ice cream place again for dinner…I had Tiramisu and Strawberry today. Sophie had this weird combo of Mango-mint and yougart – both of which I thought were totally disgusting.
And after returning the blades to Dani’s and checking e-mails we came back to our little house and just finished watching “Love Story” on my computer. We both had a nice cry! I am going to give Sophie both of the movies that I bought while I was here before I leave because they won’t work at home. I didn’t know this when I bought them, but DVDs have international codes on them. North America is code one and this part of Europe is code 2. It is too bad, but they weren’t expensive and I’ve watched them both enough to have made it a good purchase!!
Tomorrow I think I am going to bike down the canals until I don’t know where…and visit all the little towns along the way! It is my kind of biking because canals are flat. No hills for me!! And it is great because the bike has a lock and everything, so I can get off and explore when I want too.
And Sophie has told me I am on grocery duty for dinner while I am here as well because she finishes “work” late. So that promises to be another adventure tomorrow as well!!

Night

-Allison