A quick note about NORMANDY!

So, this weekend, Bucknell took a three day excursion to NORMANDY. We got up super early Friday (met the bus at 545 AM) and drove to St. Malo. We walked around that cute little city, so happy to be greeted by the fresh, sea air. We then continued to Mt. St. Michel. It was just as cool as I remembered and I appreciated it much more. We drove to our hotel and Bucknell treated us to a delicious crepe meal (Normandy specialty!) and cidre.

Mont Saint Michel started as a tiny church and grew to this!
So eat your wheaties.
JK 

We woke up again early (Catherine and I barely slept thanks to our noisy neighbors who spoke in whatever language it was at 1 in the morning... NOT COOL) and started the longest day ever recorded.

Pretty view!

We went to the debarquement beach (sp?) which was awesome to see the extensive piers that Churchill had built IN ENGLAND and then dragged over to France. We then went to a film about the DDAY beaches... which was VERY moving.
We spent lunch in the town, which was actually a horrible lunch because the woman was so rude and thank god catherine was there to yell at her for the awful service and got me my sandwich FO FREE (because I waited half an hour while the rest of my table got served, had to eat or else it would get cold, and then we all sat there before that dumb lady came out and told me they didn't have the ingredients for mine... SO RUDE).
ANYWAY, we then went to the American Cemetery. It was such a beautiful day and we were really lucky to have gotten the chance to go on such a great day. I took some GREAT pictures.

American Cemetery

We then went to Pont du Hoc to see where the American soldiers scaled up the steep cliffs.

Pont du Hoc, imagine scaling up that!

After this we went to the German Cemetery because it was really important that we see that it really was a war that took the lives of so many young people.

German Cemetery

We returned to out hotel and got dinner at an amazing local restaurant. I do not think they get many tourists in this restaurant because there were only five old men in there playing poker. They loved that we were studying french and were so excited to show off their english to us. The food was amazing. I had another crepe (my fav).

This morning, we headed to the Memorial Museum of Caen. This museum shows the history from the end of WWI through WWII and even touches upon the Cold War. It was very cool! I've been there before but this time I actually paid attention. We got to sit outside and bask in the sun once more. I'm hoping to get a little face tan :)
We then boarded the bus to head home.
I came home to an empty apartment because Beatrice is in the Caribbean for two weeks! It's kinda nice to have the place to myself and I was looking forward to eating whenever I want. but to be honest, it's not like I don't have freedom when Beatrice is around and it's nice to have someone to talk to. :(
But, oh well!! PARTAY.
just kidding :P