An unexpected day. Thats all I can say...and that rhymes! It was an early morning Sunday, I got up and worked in the print shop before brunch. That way I had the shop all to myself. It was nice, I still don't know if I got the hang of printing but thats okay. I am learning. After brunch the plan was to walk to Bonneaux. My two friends and I were geared up to walk there. But our coordinator, Brett, was trying to get a group together to go to the Cedar Forest lookout ridge. He told us he would give us a ride to Bonneaux if there was room because it was on the way. As it turns out we were the only ones that showed up for the ride. As we were driving toward the Cedar Forest, Brett convinced us to go there instead and he would drop us in Bonneaux later. I am so happy he talked us into it!!
The Cedar Forest was incredible. Cedar trees are no normally found in this region. The Romans brought Cedar trees with them and began planting when they were fortifying the valley. Now the trees have naturally spread out, but you can still see the line where they haven't crossed and mixed with the other trees yet. The Cedar Forest was planted on one of the taller ridges encompassing the valley. So the view was spectacular. I have never been able to see so much land at one time as I did today. I can't even begin to describe the view, it eludes any description I could possibly think of. I guess it is enough to say I would love to go back and just sit and look out over the valley all afternoon. :)
After our walk along the ridge, Brett drove us into Bonneaux. Since it was Sunday there wasn't many things open, but we just wanted to walk around. Bonneaux is about twice/three times the size of Lacoste, or maybe it just feels that way because there is a lot more going on. There are more restaurants and cafes, just more things to do in general. My friends and I had a great time walking around. We got to see two churches. The old church sits on the top of the hill and you can see it from Lacoste. The newly renovated church sits in the rough middle of the village. Both churches were very beautiful and earthy. The old church was especially interesting. They were restoring the building, so we weren't able to go in it. Instead we could walk around it, and we had a great view of Lacoste from that site too.
Brett was nice and drove us back to Lacoste when we were done exploring. And the rest of the night was spent doing homework and watching movies with my friends. It was nice to just sit and relax. And I finally got to call my family, which is why this post it a little late...sorry. All in All I thought it was a great first weekend in the South of France!
Posting pictures now!! Here they are
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/sarapitz/Cedar%20Forrest/
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