Loving life

(Around France)

Our study abroad group, which contains me, fifteen other college students, a director, a director's wife and a bus driver, has been traveling around France for the past week and a half. (Sadly, the bus driver was temporary.) Since pictures are worth a thousand words, below is a picture montage of our past week a half around France. (Not a montage really, Just some pictures.) The captions on the pictures will tell you everything you need to know.

Paris

Our group during a walk through Paris
(This is only our second day there)

We took a break behind Notre-Dame
(Look at our fresh faces)

Lyon

After our hike, we went to a cool museum
(I have no photos of that.) Then we got to
this cathedral. It was so pretty. Mass was just
 starting, so there was singing and everything.

Me, Kayla, Olivia, Maddie, and Kaitlin
inside a little nook in Lyon

While climbing DOWN (thank goodness)
a bunch of stairs from the cathedral,
this was our view. It's pretty spectacular.

 Le Puy En Velay

We get to Le Puy and the first thing we
do is take a "saunter" up to this
cathedral. (It was a saunter to
ou director only)

Don't worry, our whole group made it to the top!

The view was amazing, of course. 

These are photos of us after we got up there,
no one dared to document the actual
process of climbing those forsaken stairs

After our hike, Cori (my roommate) and I ate
a lovely dinner of escargot (which is
actually pretty good) with two lovely ladies

Kayla and Maddie with us at dinner, (they passed on
the escargot)

Dinner in all its glory!

 Pilgrimage Part I

Our pilgrimage was split into two parts, part one and part two. Part one started out in Le Puy En Velay and we hiked for ten miles, got on the bus and headed to Suagues for lunch. After lunch (Where I ate more escargot), we drove to Rondez in preparation for the next leg of our pilgrimage. I only have pictures from the first leg of our pilgrimage for now. The reason is because I left my wallet at one of the hotels. It was stupid, but keep in mind that we were staying at a different hotel each night. Well, in my wallet is a thumb-drive that allows me to upload my pictures to my computer, and until I get my wallet back (which should be ANYDAY now) I can't add any photos of my recent adventures. Don't worry though, I am taking plenty of them. 

This is our starting point. It's
seven in the morning and everything
 is so pretty. Notice how it's heading
downhill. That is deceptive. What goes
down must come up (something like that)

This was our view along the way

Another gorgeous view along the way

Me at mile 2 staying positive 

A Cow we saw along the way. This is the kind
of cow that I would have drawn in school

Me at mile 9 with Kayla Bowman. I felt like the
two of us where going at a lovely pace, but
everyone else is so far away.

WE DID IT!!!! This is part of group resting
while we wait for the bus. Look at
out fresh faces. Or the fresh back
of our heads.