Provance

This morning we could sleep in a little bit because our train wasn't till 9:46. We got to the train station with plenty of time to spare at around 9:15. We didn't see our train listed on the screens so we checked our tickets. We were at the Paris Gare de l'nord our ticket said Paris Gare de Lyon. I can't believe we got it wrong again! We scrambled and got to the right station minutes before it left. We ran to the train and got there just in time. This time we had seats right next to each other, unlike the last couple trains were we were across the aisle of caddy corner to each other. We napped and talked and watched the French country side go by for the next three hours until our stop at the Aix-en-provance gare (station). We got off there. There wasn't any indication of public transportation so we thought we could probably walk. We headed off in the direction our GPS said. We were walking along the side of the highway with no sidewalk. I tripped once and cut my knee! After about 15 minutes, Rachel looked at the GPS and noticed it was going to take us an hour to get there! We turned around to go back to the train station. When we got there we found an information desk which we didn't see before. We asked there and they pointed us in the direction of the bus to town. We waited twenty minutes or so for the bus and paid our fair and went to town. From the bus station we walked with our luggage to the tourism office of Aix-en-Provance. We talked to a very helpful woman who gave us a map and answered our questions. She even called our B&B to ask the host to come pick us up. We only had to wait a few minutes before a French woman came up to us and said, "Bonjour, my car is out here" She said she didn't speak much English, but it was enough for us to talk. She didn't understand all of our questions, but we got enough information. It is times like that that we feel terrible that we don't know any French.

our B&B is so nice! When we got here our hostess gave us a tour. She showed us our room, the laundry room, the kitchen, the pool, the backyard, and the dining garden. All of it is gorgeous! We spent the afternoon doing laundry and sitting by the pool. We took a walk to a small store where we bought pasta, sauce, cheese, and two oranges for dinner. I cooked dinner while Rachel uploaded most of our pictures onto Facebook. We ate and then decided to go into town for a few drinks. We waited at the bus stop for twenty minutes for the bus. It was right on time, but instead of stopping for is, it just drove on past! I was shocked, how could it do that?! The next bus wasn't for another twenty minutes, so we decided it wasn't that important. We walked up the street a little bit and found a tiny wine store run by a woman who didn't speak a word of English. We wanted to try something made in aix-en-provence so we picked a rose wine for 7 euros. The woman said, "bubity bubity bubity fromage bubity bubity tre ben." I got out of that that we should eat cheese with it and it was good. We paid and walked the ten minues back to our B&B. We watched the sun set and enjoyed our wine. We had some of the leftover parmesan from dinner. It was delicious; I wonder if it was so cheep because it was made here?

Today was much more uninteresting then many of our days, sorry. We still had a lovely day, it is nice to sit down at the end of the day and not feel like my feet are very mad at me. :-) I'm sure tomorrow will hold adventures we can't even imagine yet. Stay tuned.