Biarritz

As previously stated, I got to take a jaunt over to Biarritz, a short 20 minute drive from the house in France. It is gorgeous! Have you seen the move "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"? Well, that film is set mostly in a little town on the French Riviera called Beaumont Sur Mere (who knows if that´s the right spelling). Anyhow, it is quite similar to Biarritz. Catherine said they hold a world famous surfing competition there every year. For more info, here´s the website. It´s in French, but cool pictures.

So, Louise and I left in the afternoon around 3 and got there around 3:30. The beach was crawling with people and there´s a wide boardwalk to stroll along. We got some ice cream and set up camp in the sand. There´s a large palace looking building on either side of the beach and classy little shops all along the boardwalk. It was probably 75 degrees out and the end of October, unheard of.

I wish I´d had more time to take pictures, but being with an 11 year old who´s been there tons of times just doesn´t allow a girl the priviledge. Here are the few pics I did snap...

This is a shot to the right of where we sat on the beach. The building you can see to the far right is where, Louise said, her parents had their wedding reception! Holy cow.

This shady lane was to the left of the ice cream stand we visited right on the boardwalk. These old buildings were the norm on each tiny street.

Though slightly over explosed, this is a picture to the left of where we sat on the beach. Thinking back, I really should have gotten a picture of the water! Duh!

So, it was a nice little afternoon trip. As far as the rest of the weekend goes, I know I´m ruined for champagne for the rest of my life. Not that I drank it before coming here much, but this is good stuff. Catherine had the line of the weekend when she said, "even if I´m starving and dying of thirst, just tell me one thing... where´s the champagne?" Ha ha ha, she´s a card.

My weekly plans aren´t too special. Pretty much regular, but I´m going to a Los Delinquentes concert on Thursday, which I think I already mentioned. But, I´m excited. They´re on the CD that Inaki gave me, so I´ve been listening to them so I can sing all the songs at the concert, yesssss!

There´s a holiday Wednesday and the kids have no school, so who knows what´s on tap. Darby out of the house on her own hopefully. My team has a game that night at 5 so maybe I can go watch. I´m really sucking at speaking spanish with people and usually they end up catering to my needs and using a bit of english. I need to get strickter about that. My ears always seem to reject the spanish they hear. It´s like they fold right up into my head and won´t listen, which, as many of you know, is quite possible since the cartiledge in my ears is so flexible.

The rest of today will be a trip to the university, home for lunch and an afternoon of who knows. It´s really nice right now, I may need to go on a jog. I have practice tonight though and am not as young as I used to be. The hills call me, I´m off! Lovins all around.