9/7/12

Yesterday we took a day trip to see Mont Saint Michel and to visit St. Malo. Mont Saint Michel is an old monastery in the middle of the ocean. It is famous partly because for a long time no one was able to invade it and take it over. It was so cool to see, but we didn't have time to take an official tour, which I would have liked to do, so we had to just walk around by ourselves. 

Mont Saint Michel

Tenzin, Jen and me at the top where it was super windy!

Organ in the hall where Mass is held

Inside the church. I really wanted to stay for the Mass that was
about to start, but they made us leave.

Pretty courtyard with a garden

A little garden that I found while I was exploring

After we explored Mont Saint Michel, we met back at the buses to have a picnic lunch. My prepacked vegetarian lunch consisted  of two apples, a bowl of carrot sticks, potato chips, two little cheese rounds, and a water bottle :)Being a vegetarian is foreign to a lot of French people, so they often think that the only things we eat are fruits and vegetables. I'll have to work on them :)
 When we were done eating, we took a scenic ride to St. Malo, which is a little beach town in the region of Bretagne. When we got there it was sunny and perfect beach weather. We had several hours to walk around, and the first thing that we did was visit an old building that had been completely bombed in World War II. It was really cool. We walked all the way around, and got a beautiful view of the ocean.

They built a wall to contain some ocean water to make a little
swimming pool. It was too cold for swimming, or else I would have
been all over it

When we were done looking around the top, we decided that we should take advantage of the fact that  Bretagne is known for crepes ( I don't know how to do the accent on my computer yet, but there should be a little hat over the first e).

On the way to get our dessert, we passed this street sign which means
"Street of the cat who dances" :)

My delicious crepe du Nutella

It was a really fun, but tiring day, and on the way back to school, most of us fell asleep. The next big event is on the 14th which is Bastille Day (French Independence day) where there are festivals and fireworks and everything is open until two or three in the morning(which is a big deal in France, because there's no such thing as 24 hour restaurants or stores here).