Arrivals/Departures

My roommate Valentin went to Paris for the weekend. That meant we would be a house full of girls...English speaking girls, for three days. Eimear and I promised to get the English thing out of our system now, because come Monday it's going to be All French-All the time!

So...Friday night, the girls and I went to go pick up my friend Emily from the train station. She had spent a few weeks in Greece and was nice enough to come hang out with me in Lyon for the weekend. Emily is also spending a year abroad living in Ireland; she's been traveling for the last 6 weeks. We got back to the apartment, relaxed and did a little gift exchange. I surprised her with Kraft Dinner from Canada and she brought me three giant chocolate bars from Greece! Mmmm chocolate. Milk chocolate ION chocolates that I used to eat when I was a kid. Melts right in your mouth...I digress.

On Saturday afternoon, after a long day of rifling through the book market and strolling through Vieux lyon I wanted to take a little afternoon nap. I got all ready for my little sieste when I heard some music coming from the street level. I looked out my window and to my surprise, Robin S' 90's hit Show Me Love was blasting from a float covered with shirtless men waving rainbow flags. And behind that float were hundreds of people dancing in the streets. Looks like I wasn't going to be having that nap anytime soon...

The next day was the day Denise left to go back home for Ireland. We were sad to see her go, but we all had a lovely breakfast together her last morning in Lyon.
With all these comings and goings, it looks like it's definately going to be an interesting summer here at 1 rue Ferrendière.