On Saturday, we went to a vineyard in Beaujolais, which was nothing short of spectacular. I have a ton of pictures from it but no way to upload them yet, unfortunately. But here's one that our program director Chris took of me, Elena and Brett, who also go to UCSB:
The vineyard was beautiful, and the cool part was that the couple who owned the place each showed us their specialties. So the husband was a wine expert, and he hosted this really big DELICIOUS dinner (at 1pm in the afternoon...) that began with a lesson on wine tasting. So we got to taste their own home made wine straight from the vineyards...and then we stuffed our faces :-P
Paté, quiche, beef stew, brioche (sweet bread) and neverending bread and wine, oh my! The food is definitely something that I will miss about this place. After the grand repas (big meal), we got a tour around the vineyard...although at that point, I could barely move because I was so full! We got to eat grapes right off the vine, and I got a lot of great pictures. Then, we went to another part of their estate where the wife makes fresh BREAD! And she made us all little loaves of bread to take home right in front of us! It was fantastic.
All weekend in Lyon, there was something going on called the Journées Européennes de Patrimoine, or something like that, (which roughly translates to.. european days of our forefathers) so all the museums and monuments in town were free for the weekend! To take advantage of that, I went downtown yesterday to do some sight seeing. I ended up at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, which was really neat. It used to be a church (but then again thats not saying much, most buildings here in Europe have some kind of religious value) but its basically your run of the mill Fine Arts museum. I was pretty excited to see a few paintings by artists like Monet, Manet, Picasso, and Matisse! There were also a lot of Rodin sculptures. (Sidenote: Mom, I can't wait until you come out here to educate me about all the stuff at these museums!!!)
I wandered around by myself for the first hour or so, and I ended up running in to my friend Birtue from Berkeley, so we wandered a little bit more together, before parting ways and heading home.
My birthday is on Wednesday, but it's a bit of a bummer since I have class at 8AM (it took me nearly 50 minutes to get to class this morning!)...However, I don't have class at all for the rest of the day after that, so hopefully I'll think of something fun to do!
Gotta go finish some homework and figure out how I'm going to fix my laptop...Have a good week everyone!
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