After packing up, Chuck, Barbs and Hannah were all waiting in the car (anxious to leave). Hannah went back in to the room, only to find Cedar lying underneath the covers of her bed, messing around on her computer. “Let’s go! We are leaving!!” Cedar didn’t move. Then a few minutes later, Chuck came in the room to grab one last thing and said “Come on, we’re leaving!! If you don’t come RIGHT now we are leaving you!” Cedar replied, “okay byeeee”. After Chuck left Cedar started grabbing her things and headed outside to jump in the car. But…there was no car.
Finally, after pacing around for 5 minutes, searching the parking lot, going back into the room and saying “uh, hellooo?” to emptiness, Cedar thought she saw the car drive by, a good 60 feet away, heading in the opposite direction. Her thoughts were confirmed when she saw a flash of Chuck’s pink shirt and his distinct laughter
as they passed right by Cedar, not even looking her direction. They left her just like they said they would. Imagine that.
When Barbs wakes up early (so every day), she likes to listen to podcasts written by Rick Steves, author of the travel book we are following on this trip. While on the road, Barbs informs us of everything she learned about our destination of the day. Hannah was listening to her iPod and not really paying attention to the DRSC (Daily Rick Steves Conversation). Coming into the conversation late, she tuned into the group and asked,
“Did Rick Steves tell you that?”
Barbs replied with “Rick Steves doesn’t talk to me. He talks through me”.
“Oh, so you’re the prophet of Rick Steves??”
(We took her silence as agreement.)
Another thing about our boy Rick Steves: he doesn’t seem to be the biggest “foodie”. Because of this we consult the fancy and world-renowned Yelp for dinner recommendations instead. Again, it led us right to the holy grail of French food. We had an amazing meal, complete with our first escargot of the trip (consumed too quickly for a photo op). Pictures are below.
Until then,
--Hannah and Cedar