Sunday, February 10, 2008

Random...filling in the blanks a bit ..a few snaps





This is my view of the Puy-de-Dome volcano from my balcony... 






















we did finally make it to the tex -mex restaurant a few weeks back, it was pretty awesome...very fresh, but also very expensive.  luckily I do not appreciate tequila, so I left my friends to be suckered into purchasing a 25 euro pitcher of margaritas... ooh la!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Where's the wi-fi ?















So much fun, so few opportunities to go online and share stories.  For now I will settle with posting a few more pictures and save the minutia for a later date. 
Here's a picture from our first ski trip --> Super Lioran!  It was glorious, but extremely icy and treacherous, with approximately 37000 people on the mountain. good thing all the "debutant" slopes were closed and all of these people were on the advanced slopes making it all the more fun! wheee.

well, I actually DID find wi-fi...unexpectedly for sure....at the laundromat.  Sure, they can only afford 3 washers and 1 dryer...but they have wireless !!! whooooo.  

we were also very lucky seeing as how EVERYTHING is closed on sundays, including all boutiques, kiosques,  food stores, boulangers, and a good portion of restaurants and cafés.   turns out that I DID have 14 kilograms of laundry......meaning I have run out of curo coins and have nothing left to dry all four-teeeeeen kilos of sopping wet and somewhat clean (i hope, but have little faith in the tiny blocks of detergent that I bought here..) hmm.  Luckily there is a super friendly and helpful young guy here with me.... reading harry potter in english.  Quelle Chance !!