Paris: (You know it's been a great vacation when you've forgotten how many days you've beeeg travelling.)

We started out Monday morning by an exploration of Carcassonne in the daylight, before our seven hour trip up to Vendome. Carcassonne is unlike any other city we've visited on this trip so far, as it's a fortified city-- the whole city lies within the walls of the castle (Okay... there's actually a city outside of that too, but we didn't explore it-- so we'll just leave it at that).

We took a tour of the ramparts, learned a bit about the history, and had a great time for the short time we were able to explore! After that, we hit the road (like I said, seven hours of road) to Vendome, to stay with some friends-of-friends. The drive went pretty quickly, and it was nice once again to see a change of scenery-- country living this time! The house was quaint and the property was full of chickens (which made me VERY happy. And Bryan very suspicious of my plans for the future). We were greeted also by a game... of... again, forgetting the name-- similar to bocce ball? And a lovely dinner outside on the porch! (If you haven't tried cassoulet yet, you should probably plan that. Soon.)

The following day we said (a very sad) goodbye to Louis-Daniel (who was going to the beach with some friends), and we took off by ourselves to Paris once more. Once we got in to town, we explored the city of Monmarte more thoroughly-- including some spots from one of my favorite movies-- Amelie! (Bryan was super sweet and encouraged me to find some of the actual spots from the movie, which was a treat! Colignon's market and the Two Windmills restaurant, as well as the park/carousel that was featured).

Tonight we also went back to Champs Elysse for a bit of shopping, and a very late dinner! Again, we have a bad habit of wearing ourselves out, so we're off to bed! Goodnight!