Menerbe

Walking, walking , walking thats what I did today!! A group of us decided to walk to a nearby village called Menerbe. It was a 7km hike...or 4.5 miles each way. My walking shoes were working :) It was quite a hike, but we started out early enough and arrived in town about 10:30. I got to walk along the highway and see the trees, mountains, and fields up close. I went with my two roommates Lauren and Ashley and a friend Nicole. Then we talked two guys into coming with us last night. Neil and Steve put up with a bunch of girl chatter, but they seemed to enjoy it and had fun seeing the town.

Menerbe is beautiful, like almost every other thing I have seen in France. It is mostly a residence village and it is built around a mountain, instead of on a side of it, like Lacoste is built. It was fun to see the views from the top, and I don't think the villagers see many Americans, because everyone we met wanted to know who we were. We decided we would eat lunch in town too and found a little pizzeria. It was so funny. The pizza came out as flat as a pancake and as big as a dinner plate. But it was yummy. I had margarita pizza and it was amazing!!! After pizza I decided to order a coffee. It was interesting because it was the first coffee I have ordered in France. And I got the bitterest (is that a word?) coffee I have ever gotten in my life, served in a shot glass...hahaha But it came with little sugar cubes and a piece of chocolate. So I stuck those in the glass and knocked it back. And you know what....I was ready for that walk home after that!! I was so talkative, and energetic my friends didn't know what to think1

So after the trek back, it was time to get ready for the gallery opening. There was a famous French photographer who decided to open a small gallery here in Lacoste. So I dressed up and went to look at her work. It was really interesting, the photographer followed around an prima ballerina for most of her life. And all of the subjects were of this ballerina, so naturally I loved it!! There was also very nice wine served and little o'rderves. (haha can't spell that one) It was a good time to mingle and get to know other people on the trip.

Then after dinner I got a new challenge (Sam this is for you and anyone else who understands animation speech.) I found a guy at the gallery who is a broadcast design major and he has MAYA!!! :) He always looked familiar, because I guess I have seen him in Monty all the time. But he was doing stuff in maya, and didn't understand it. So I offered to help, and I helped!!! LOL I know it sounds so funny, but I haven't animated in like three weeks. And I have been wanting too so bad, but they just don't have the program on the lab computers. So I had fun! But I had to work on a mac and it wasn't as easy!! There is not a middle mouse button, and that totally confused me. I had to figure out a way to work around it until my friend figured out how to make the left mouse button work like the middle one.... Anyways I am done geeking out, but yeah I am a nerd, cuz I got really excited about animating today!!

So needless to say, I animated after dinner, and didn't do any prints in the lab like I was supposed to. Which makes me sad because tomorrow I had signed up to go hiking up the mountains, and now it looks like I will have to stay back and work on homework. I normally would just go on the hike and do homework later, but I might have an opportunity to go to church tomorrow night, and I really don't want to miss that either. So I am in a rut...I don't know where I will go, but I am going to sleep on it and decide in the morning. Thanks for listening everyone. Until next time. Bonne Nuit!

ps I promise more pictures next time :)

Here they are!!
Pictures:
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/sarapitz/Menerbes/