Une petite vacance a la plage!

This past weekend there was nothing on the schedule (shocking I know) and we were really encouraged to travel. So, myself, my two friends Courtney and Natasha, one of the professors, Ruth (who is amazing), and Natasha’s host mom Dominique, went to the beach! We were lucky enough to be able to stay at Dominique’s friend, Mon(ique)’s house, which was absolutely ADORABLE. It’s this old house/combination of flats that’s been in Mon’s family for like 200 years. It definitely shows its age, but the place could not be cuter. We ate every meal in the garden, slept with the windows wide open and the ocean air coming in, and it was COMPLETELY silent. This town had to be the cutest French town I’ve ever seen. It was about a 5-minute walk from the beach, and we took advantage of this to the fullest. We arrived Saturday around noon, had lunch (more fresh bread, local cheese, wine and produce, etc- yes you should be jealous;) then headed to the beach. The weather could not have been more perfect- Dominique told us that the sun follows her wherever she goes! The great thing about being here is that the sun doesn’t start to set until like 9:30, and isn’t completely down until 10:30 or 11, so we were at the beach until about 6:30 and could have stayed a while longer. At that point thought we were all very hungry, sunburned and sandy, so it was back to the house for showers and a yummy dinner with Mon (I got to practice my French a lot!). Sunday morning we got up and went to the open market (basically a farmer’s market but with clothes and jewelry and other random stuff) where we munched on cherries and perused the various stands. After a while the beach was calling us again and the weather was the same if not better than it was Saturday, so we beached it again for another few hours before heading back to the house to clean up, and then head back to Angers. It was the perfect weekend with the perfect people at the perfect house on the perfect beach in the perfect town with the perfect weather! (Not to rub it in…) The only bad part- I forgot my camera. L Lucky for me everyone else has one so I’m going to steal the pictures from them just as soon as I can!