Guemene

{7.01.10}

Happy people. Very happy people. We are at McDonald's with WiFi. Something you begin to adore in France!

We made it to Paris on Tuesday morning and waited several hours at the airport waiting to find Sabrina who was "waiting in the hall" like Dr. Davis said. Too bad we weren't looking for her in THAT hall. It was a long wait mostly because we were exhausted from the flight from Seattle to Amsterdam. Finally we met up and hopped in the rental car which was supposed to be a van. Whatever at that point. After aquainting oursleves with the Garmin GPS, we made our way from the airport to Brittany. This was supposed to be a 4 hour drive which really took almost 7 hours. We were exhausted!

The highlights of the 7 hour road trip were: 1. Getting the GPS switched from Maple Valley, WA to France (Shout out to me for that!) 2. Maggie teaching me the beginning part to the song Mockingbird (Finally, they broke it down for me and told me the parts after TWO years) 3. Finding a McDonald's off the route to get some road food (And WiFi) 4. Sabrina, Maggie and I hanging out outside a gas station in plastic yard chairs and realizing, "Wow, we are in France!" while Reed woke up slowly from a power nap. (The car was blazing hot inside and he kept the windows rolled up) 5. Making it to the Carrefour 10 minutes before they closed. 6. Arriving to our destination shortly after 8 PM and meeting Ron (the owner of the place).

After a decent night sleep (try 11 hours) we woke up and headed to Guemene, a small town about 15 minutes from the house. The photo is the outside of the Creperie where we had breakfast. I had a crepe with ham, cheese and mushrooms along with a tasty cup of coffee.

We poked around the rest of the day. Took a nap. I took a dip in the pool (quite refreshing after a nap). Then, we drove around the area and ended up in Guemene for dinner at a pizza/pub joint. Last night we realized we had a lot of planning to do for the grocery store and the realization that we have small/dorm-like fridges to work with became daunting. Never fear though, with all of us we figured out a plan.

Today, we are in Loriant looking for the rental car place then heading back to the house. We NEED to do all the shopping for Saturday, Sunday and Monday today since the stores are closed on Monday AND we will be gone tomorrow to Paris and picking the students up on Saturday.

I am looking forward to getting the road trip out of the way (the one that took us 7 hours!) and getting settled for a few days.