Our Fourth Excursion!

On this excursion we had a big day planned ahead of us. We went to Toulouse, France. First we walked to the Saint-Senin Basicilica it was a lovely Romanesque styled church. Then we went to the church of ****, after that we got a little tour of toulouse by walking to one of the universities. We then ate at the cafeteria in the university, yum yum (not). After that we took the bus to tour Air Bus!! Then we had to hurry to the Musee de la Resistance and de la Deportation. Where we met up with some Dickenson College students. Next, we walked over to the students group house for some wine and snacks. Now, for supper they were suppose to go with us and help us navigate around Toulouse... because Toulouse is a pretty big city. But they kind of just left us, although one girl did stay. So, we managed to find our way around, ate at a good italien restuarant, ate a crepe for dessert, then left for the bus station. We used the pubilc bus transportation to get us back to Albi, then Jerry, Tim, & Dan car pooled us back to Ambialet. What a day...a long day:)

The Beginning of Shelly & Eric's Kitchen!! -Galettes

Yum!!! it turned out great, Tim was our first taste tester and he gave it the ok. Then we let everyone else try it. They all loved it! Keep updated for our next kitchen time.
Here is me going for a bite...
BEAUTIFUL! If you look close, it says E & S. With Eric's lovely decorating around it.
Taa Daaa! Well it look a bit dark, but not burnt. Lets get a close up.
If you've never seen a vanilla bean before, well this is it! We used one in the galette, it was pretty neat.
Off it goes into the oven for 40 Minutes. Try converting Fahrenheit to Celsius in your head.... it got tricky for us.
Here is the awesome bakers!!
Me and the galette
Here is Eric and the galette l
This is a galette! It was just put together and now is ready for the oven. Eric & I put many hours into it, so were excited to see how it turns out:)

Driving Europe Style:)

Okay, this is what happens when Ian or Matt or Eric gets ahold of my camera.
Yep, that is me driving in Europe! And in Europe they drive standard, so I'm driving a standard car. (Dan's car he lease for the semester here). As you can see, he is giving a thumbs up to my driving! (It was different because of everything in metric, so instead of mph its kmph. )
Here is just another picture of proof of my driving.
Some of my passengers were Matt & Eric.
Ian & Matt

Tour of AIR BUS!!

This is of their working station, you can see a unpainted plane in front, (the green thing), this is where all of the planes are put together. They can fit three in at a time. This is the SECOND largest building in the world. But, biggest in Europe. Boeing has the largest building in the world of course.
Here is a Balooga Plane that they use to help transport parts to Toulouse.


Here is a picture of an A380! Well its really a picture of a postcard, but thats the closest I could get. We were not allowed cameras on the tour.
Okay Air Bus is Europe's largest Air Plane Company. They build planes and of course is America's main competitor of Boeing. But, we got to tour Air Bus!! In 2007 they came out with the A380!! It is a huge double decker commercial plane, that maybe we'll get to ride some day. Right now their in the process of making them. Which takes I think close to a year, is what they said. But in Toulouse is located the main office! This Wednesday we did our excursion in Toulouse (its pretty close to Albi). But here is us entering, I was so excited! I do need to suggest, that now I need to go tour Boeing, since I am an American and it is the largest American air plane company... (good gift idea, just need to get to Seattle some how:)
Here is me by the sign pretending to fly, it was also windy there as you can see.
Here is me and the A380, isn't it huge?!! That was the entry way, too bad it wasn't the real thing, but this is the closest I could get to one, I'm right by the A.

Here is the largest buiding in Europe!! Although second largest in the World. Boeing has the largest! We went in there later to see the actual building of the A380!
It says "Air France Industries" also passed this building on way.
When arriving to Air Bus we were passing all these big buildings, so I don't know what they are. I just know they all take part in making the planes.

SNOW DAY!!!

Less than a hour later!! The missing snow man!! (I guess snow melts that fast over here.
But, we had a fun time enjoying the snow, we had a short snowball fight. I forgot to make a snow angel though, rumors have it that we might get snow this Saturday... so maybe I'll have my chance then:) After making FrosTY, we all enjoyed a cup of Hot Chocolate, or in french it is chaude chocolat. (which it is made with dark choc.)
Val, Jess, Me, & Leah- makers of FrosTY!
Of course we made a snow man!! His name is FrosTY. He looked better in person.
Here is the le tarn river that flows around us. Lookin pretty brown after this snow.
This picture was taken from the monastery balcony.
Looking down into the valley.


Isn't it so pretty, we had our own monastery winter wonderland. As you can see, the snow stuck to the trees very well.

Well, not quite a snow day, but we did not have to go to Albi for French. Look at all the snow!

My First Rugby Game!!

Cat, Jess, Val, Collin, & Leah.
Chelsea, Eric, Me, & Staci.
As of what I learned, Rugby is a mixture of football and soccer. Or in my view, a lot guys fighting over a rugby ball with out protection gear.
Here is Albi's mascot. He liked our section the most because we cheered with him.
Staci, Cat, Jess, & Val.

Albi vs. ?