Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!

Whoops…I’ve been a little busy lately, and it was the blog that suffered.

About a week and a half ago, Elisa and I took a day trip to a small town called Vienne about half an hour outside Lyon by train. We didn’t realize until after but the tickets you buy are good for 2 months and right before you get on the train you are supposed to validate them yourself with little automatic ticket punchers…we didn’t know this, so we didn’t validate our tickets! Lucky for us no one came by to check tickets and as a result we can use our tickets to Vienne again!!! So between first class, and reusing our tickets to Vienne, we seem to be doing alright with the trains here!

Anyway, after arriving bright and early in Vienne, we decided to treat ourselves to a couple of pastries at this bakery that smelled way too good to pass up. We kept walking down the street and discovered that we got there just in time for the market! Markets here are so cool, they sell pretty much everything from clothes to make up to food, and most of it is super cheap! We looked around for awhile, and then started touring! Vienne was amazing; it’s an old, small, roman town with tons of old buildings and roman ruins! We hiked up yet another mountain to visit a church and got a view of the whole town which is right on the Rhône River. It was nice because the town is small enough to wander through. It was however a bit of a shock to walk through the cobblestone streets and all of a sudden come out into a square with an old roman building in the middle of town…that does not happen in Canada haha. We spent the entire day walking around and by the time 5pm rolled around we were ready to get back on the train to go home.

This past weekend was of course thanksgiving in Canada, so HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! Feeling a little blue about missing out on family time and the delicious food, we decided to make our own “thanksgiving” ! haha …we spent all day Saturday having a look around the mall and getting our groceries for our meal and ended up with a pretty delicious dinner..even if it wasn’t as good as normal. We bought a roast chicken (already cooked!) and made mashed potatoes, beans, corn, carrots…and of course stuffing! Minus being actually stuffed into the bird…it was delicious I even made a sign to sit next to our decorative mini pumpkin ( haha yup, we had decorations!) so that the French girls would know what was going on…it turned out the sign was needed because most of them had no idea what the hell was going on!! So, after several glasses of wine and a stroll alongside the river, we finished off our dinner with delicious French desserts J… despite the lack of family, it turned out to be a pretty great day!

Tomorrow I’m off to my first ever soccer game! It should be a good, rowdy time with all the crazy European fans, so the next post should be interesting!