Last Blog?

I'm not sure yet if this will be the last blog? becasue this is the end the upcoming last week of the semester but   i don't know if we will have to blog about the last week we are here too. I got to see the west wing! aka the forbidden part of my house. my computer suddenly stopped working and i went upstairs to find come becuase i could hear he was up there from the music. so themystery is solved! except that there are like hundreds and hundreds more horse statues and pictures, and all sorts of creepy like charcoal portraits of come, margerite, and marie de laide. and there is a sclae up there! it has been like directly above me all semester, how weird it that. but it is still like trashed up there, it is seriously ridiculous. but then come disappeared into another level that i didnt know existed and i am still in the dark about that one. seeing that it took me a semester to get up to the first secret floor i doubt im going to get to see the top in a week.

abby came with us to the versailles meeting today (my friend fromknitting) but i think we were both disappointed in how much like class it was. yesterday we went to knitting in public. we were the first oness there i think? or maybe we just didnt see the big group buy she brought romain while she and i knitted for a while he read. then we found the big group. our group didnt have neough intererst so we joined with the "knitspirit group" (stupid name) because they said on their blog that knitspirit herself would make little kits for everyone who came. but then their group was like not very friendly and we tried to wait them out becuase i was sure she wouldnt want to carry all those packs back, but evidently she did becuase she never gave us any, she just like showed them off and then she even gave some to strangers! they had some needles in it and some yarn that looked like shoelaces kind of, and a little pattern. the thing i wanted most was the bag becuase it was red and snapped shut and had a great handle, it was just, SO GREAT! but anyway she didnt give us any and i didnt want any of her stupid bags anyway becuase the yarn was ugly. so we left. then we went to this little flea market kind of thing and walked around for a bit. i have made so much progress on my sweater! there are only 46 more rows until the body is done! i started the lace part too, the first row of it today but then i was too tired to do anymore without screwing up after the slave drive that was this morning. 

i finally bought some honey too, but it is not the right kind. even the honey specialty store saidt hat ivy honey did not exist so i bought some white lavender honey. i think it will be good anyway but im bummed i didnt find the right stuff after all. i was teasing with john that iw as just going to put an ivy honey label on it, but i guess honey actually tastes a little like what kind of flowers it was made form? oh well, lost cause. but this means souvenir shopping is over. i hope everything i bought is going to fit. i cannot wait to start packing! I am going to be home in less than 200 hours!

bordeaux

so i am rather unimpressed by the city of bordeaux itself. there is like NOTHING to do there. but I found a tour of the vineyards that was not to expensive and it was really fun. basically they gave us a lot of wines to taste starting from the youngest to oldest to teach us how to taste the different levels of tannins in a wine and how they get better if you dont drink a bottle of wine until 3 years after you buy it, and an hour after you open it. I also found the castle where I am totally going to get married, provided the economy is still bad enough for castles to be as affordable as they apparently are right now, when I get married. Other than that I have been making so much progress on my sweater. I am thinking about taking enxt weekend off from travelling becuase i already have plans with abby and kind of want to try to go to the beach. although, i gues i could just hang out with abby and go to the beach the last weekend I am here because it seems like that is going to be pretty hard to get out of town during just with getting everything packed up and everything.