June 25

Monday, June 25, 2007

It was totally gross out today. I hate rain…and when everything I want to do is outside, and when the only way to get anywhere is by bike or by foot, the rain sucks even more! As a result I sure didn’t do a lot today!!!
I got up with Sophie and we had cereal for breakfast and she left before 9am. I had a shower and went biking not long afterwards…it rained during the night, but the clouds weren’t that dark, so I figured it’d be okay – yah not so much…
The canals are totally perfect biking because there are no hills. And no hills is a good thing when I am borrowing bikes. Both Sophie and Dani are TALL people = bike is way too big for me! It was good to use it though, I’m not complaining…it is just a good thing that there was no real work involved!! Anyway…I biked a good 2 hours down the canals in the opposite direction from Toulouse. I made it to a little town that starts with an M (don’t remember what it is)…but it wasn’t exciting at all!! In my France book it says that Toulouse is really the only decent sized city in the region, and I think that is probably true…because even the little towns were, well, very little!
The canals are cool though because this canal connects the Ocean to the Mediterranean (man alive that took me a while to get the spelling…). There are 63 locks along the way too…and lots and lots of big river/canal boats. So, that is kinda funky, I think!
Well…just as I was leaving my M village it started to rain, so I turned back around towards Toulouse and Sophie’s place. I was a good 2 hours away from anything though, so I was nice and wet by the time I got back.
And because there was no food at Sophie’s either, I had to go out of the way in the pouring rain to get food! I lucked out there, though because the grocery store closes every day at 12:45 and I got there at about 12:41…If it hadn’t been open I would have been really sad and hungry! And…the grocery store is really cool…I’ll go again tomorrow (for dinner food). It is like a mini Costco version with great prices, but smaller quantities! So that made me nice and happy!!! (doesn’t take much, does it?!)
And then, after I ate my crackers and cheese for lunch, I had a wonderfully long nap (without an alarm clock). And I have just spent the last couple of hours planning what I need to do when I get home and making lists and organizing files on my computer – kind of sick…but I like organizing things and without a car, I am kind of trapped when it rains!
Hopefully it won’t rain tomorrow…I am planning to go do all the tourist-y things in Toulouse because Sophie and I didn’t really cover everything! We were too caught up in the shopping to get excited about churches!!
I’m off to meet Sophie…

Later

-Allison