We have made it into our second week here! It's been a few days since I posted mostly because Cam and I were hanging out and checking some stuff out this past weekend. While we didn't go anywhere we still had a great weekend :)
Friday
I know I posted last that we were planning on taking a tour of Airbus... well so was everyone else apparently because they were booked solid through the weekend. So instead we headed out to the mall right by where Cam works. It was one of the craziest rides of my life because of the traffic and boy was I thankful to make it there! Cam assured me though that it usually wasn't that bad--must have been because it was a Friday afternoon! Anyways it was a pretty good sized mall and we enjoyed just walking around and checking things out. We also checked out a huge grocery store within the mall that was at least the size of a Sam's Club, but not with bulk items if that makes any sense. By the time we got home from that we spent some time Facetiming with Kerry, Melinda, and Connor which was awesome...I think we ended up spending about two hours on line with them! We all just kept talking and catchin up on things going on here and back home...after we logged off it was almost 10:00 or 10:30 I think so we just called it a night!
Saturday
We finally slept in which was a little slice of heaven for me!! By the time we woke up it was essentially lunch time. After grabbing some food we headed out to check out a little more of Toulouse and some of the shops. We also stopped at the Office de Tourism to find out about things to do around here. We got sprinkled on a little bit as we were heading back to the hotel to grab our shopping bags for the grocery store...we checked the weather and it looked like we had a gap so we headed to the bigger of the two grocery stores. We loaded up on some essentials and headed back home. We didn't get rained on either-bonus! By that time it was time for dinner (according to us anyways-it was only like 5 pm but we were hungry!!). We made our first meal here at the hotel and it was good! We had some 4 cheese ravioli with fruit as a side! YUM! After dinner we also had a little dessert--I will post a picture of it because it was like a trip down memory lane for me--it's vanilla ice cream with thin layers of chocolate and it's awesome. We used to eat it every once and a while when we were growing up so it was fun to introduce Cam to it! I also found some yogurt that I had as a kid so I have been chomping down on that too--I took a picture of that too to show my brother--I bet he remembers it also! After dessert we were ready to chill so we watched a little bit of Rick Steves France which is a DVD of a tour guide who shows you all the good stuff to check out.
Sunday
It already seems so long ago! Just kidding! :) We slept in again which was awesome, but it also took away half our day then. We decided since most things are closed on Sundays (even the grocery stores) we would hang out at the hotel for a little while. We did some research on-line for a few hours then decided it was time to stretch our legs so we went for a nice long walk down to the park. The park was crazy busy with tons of people out strolling around, lots of kids playing, and a lot of people laying in the grass just sleeping or reading. It was interesting to see how the locals spend some of their time--according to what we saw--hanging out at the park on a beautiful Sunday afternoon is the way to go! By the time we got back from our walk it was time for dinner. After dinner we talked to my Dad for a little while and then looked up fun house ideas/gardening ideas on Pinterest for a little while then it was bed time because Cam had to work today...even though we have slept good the last few nights it has been taking us a while to actually fall asleep because our minds are just racing...so finally we fell asleep and here we are this morning :) So although we didn't actually leave Toulouse this weekend we had a pretty good first weekend by ourselves...we also spent some time researching places to go to and things to do so I think we might try a day trip this weekend? Maybe the Airbus tour on Friday and then a day trip Saturday? We will see :) I have some more pictures to share and I will explain them below kinda like I have been doing so far...
Best yogurt ever! I remember eating this as a kid!
It's so good!
~I had some technical problems with the internet yesterday so I wrote this post yesterday, but it finally let me upload this morning...sorry for the delay!~
J
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