Here again trying to catch up news on my blog. At this moment I am moving faster than I can blog so although I am currently living in spain, news for that will have to wait.
Recently, My parents and my aunt were able to visit me in France. My-French-Partner-in-Crime (FPIC) and I were excited to be able to take them around for awhile and in 10 days we attempted to fit in a months worth of things.
In addition to taking them around the Alps and the areas where I had been living, we of course had to go to Paris. My FPIC, being French, hates Paris...but for me it was my first time. It was just like in the movies. Everywhere we turned there was a monument or a famous building or a traffic jam. In 3 days, we fit in The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triumph, Notre Dame, the Lourve, Versailles, Montmartre, and a million other things.
The Eiffel Tower of course. We did not go up it but we did go under it! Someone dropped a baseball hat off of it and a man caught it out of the air and put it on his kid's head.
Back in the mountains, my FPIC brought my dad and I mountain biking in the Alps. You can buy a ski lift ticket and then take your bike up the lift and ride down all day. It is beautiful and fun but also rather on the difficult side for a person who likes to go fast but has so technical experience like me. The first day I suffered from only a few spills, but on my second day out I got a little cocky and tried to take a jump. I am sure it ws quite impressive when the bike flipped and I flew landed face first and was dragged through the mud. In the end, I was able to stand up, collect my dented bike and broken helmet and we found a bar on the mountain where the waitress took one look at my face and led me behind the bar to use the sink.
Although it has healed now, I do have a nice scar on my nose and forehead from the day I thought I was an expert mountain-biker and flung myself facefirst down a mountain.
The view is amazing from the biking trails.
And thank you to all who were with me in person and in spirit on my special day.
Love to all,
Laura
