PARIS: Day 4

(Behold! The view from our hotel room. Great, huh?)

Day four started out bright and early, with a yummy French breakfast (croissants, jam, toasted baguettes and tasty local yogurt) at our hotel, then we went to pick up our rental car. Side note? Driving-- and being a passenger in said car-- are much easier than driving in London-- that is, until we hit the mountains of course-- but more on that later! We arrived to our destination in the afternoon-- to Cirque de Gavarnie. WOW. First of all, the trip is treacherous. I'm talking, "why would anyone ever drive 90km/hour down these roads." We're taking fancy european car test driving commercial, crazy hairpin turns on tiny roads type of scary. It was definitely a hard mix of "sweet lord those cars are insane for even being on here" to "oh my gosh that's the best view I've ever seen." Over the hours, the view definitely won out :) We made it there in one piece, and it was most definitely worth it.

The hike up to the falls took a few hours, and we enjoyed ever step. It's really hard to show in photos how gorgeous this place was! The whole town is in the 'cirque', which is the formation of rocks that forms; which in this case, ended in a super tall series of waterfalls. Our B&B was at the top of one of the hills overlooking everything. Super cool. Also super cool? The guard donkeys that we got to meet on our way down to town.

Overall? Amazing. The hike was beautiful. We climbed things. We played by the super cold snow packs that were still around. We took way too many photos.

We even ate lunch with the local sheep (even more bread, cheese, and local charcuterie. I have no idea how to spell that, but I don't even care. SUPER TASTY MEAT.

We were sad to leave Gavernie, but we finally did super late in the afternoon... we then hopped back in to the car, and on to a four hour drive (after a 7 hour drive yesterday to Toulouse, then to Gavarnie yesterday, the car is still fun... only because the view is so great!), to Mount Louis. The cabin we are currently staying at is in the highest city in France; and is quite neat already. It's a super fun old style cabin that is owned by one of LD's teachers from college, and is such a neat find! We ate and drank till our little hearts content, then are about to go to sleep--and sleep in for the first time in awhile-- so ALAS! This wonderful trip continues.

More later :) Goodnight!