What's the Story Wishboneee

What a great weekend I had! Friday night I saw the movie the King's Speech (in english with french subtitles). If you have not seen this movie, go see it now. Shut your computer, get the car keys, and go. This was the best movie I have seen in a long, long time.
Seeing the movie with the French subtitles was very interesting. Many of the humor was lost through translation. The French people in our theater must have thought we were crazy as we laughed and laughed at jokes that were not translated. C'est dommage.

On the train lOoKiNg FlY

Saturday, we went to visit two castles. We went to Azay le Rideau and Chinon. I will talk about Chinon first because it was my least favorite of the two. Chinon was more of a medieval fortress than a royal castle. Interestingly, there was a lot of information on Joan of Arc, who travelled there to help Charles VII win the Hundred Years War, or something like that. The castle was actually kinda creepy, with weird staircases that led to random rooms. However, it sparked enough interest in me that when I got home, all I wanted to do was get on wikipedia and look up stuff on Joan of Arc. There was a lot of stuff that went down with her that was not portrayed on my Wishbone TV shows as a child (Wishbone- best history lessons of 1990). I've noticed since I've come to France that I have become so much more interested in history than I ever was before!

Purty Castle- Azay le Rideau

Why can't I get sweet air too?

So, Azay le Rideau. Now, this castle was more of a Noble residence. But it was bea-u-ti-ful. It is covered on all sides by a moat. They somehow slowed the water down surrounding the residence so that when its sunny, the water becomes a mirror... so cool. The castle itself on the inside was sickkk as well. One thing that stuck out the most to me was that the King had his very own bedroom in this house as well, just in case he ever decided to pop in for a quick visit. And he did, twice. The town surrounding this particular castle was adorable as well. We couldn't find sandwiches at the time we wanted to eat lunch, so we went to a boulangerie and bought a baguette, went to the market and bought chevre cheese and tomatoes, and had a nice lil' picnic. It was fun!

The market

Tonight is the Super Bowl and I am actually so sad I am missing it. I want to eat chips and salsa and have one night where its totally ok to sit around for four hours and not think about homework! And I'm also really craving an American ice cream sundae... so if anyone wants to make that happen, that would be greeeeeattttt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLEvrkbFcQ For those who do not know who Wishbone is, I've included this link. But you should really take some time and be ashamed of yourself and think about what is actually important in life. A little Jack Russell Terrier teaching history to children is much more important than anything you were doing in the 1990s.