Outrunning the storm

Sorry that I'm failure at updating this blog (especially for you, Mom), but it takes an eon to upload photos to this (over a half hour per group of 5 photos), so it's a rather time consuming process.

As such, I'm abandonning putting up all the photos from my amazing weekend with Marie-Hélène et Gérard, as I took a million photos and can't begin to choose so few to upload. Don't worry, I'll show them to you when I get home.

Anyways, here are a few photos I took last Monday, which we had off since it was Pentecost. For a country that claims to be completely "laïque" or secular, I find it interesting that we're off for religious holidays. But that is besides the point. I spent the day with Michel and Rémy and we took a bit of a tour in the car. Unfortunately, we couldn't go to the féria at Nîmes because it was supposed to storm something awful. Instead, we ended up driving to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to see the Mediterranean (and kill time). As you can see in the photos, the raging storm clouds followed us the whole way, and we only ended up spending a half hour on the beach itself. It's gorgeous. Michel says we're going to go back later this spring/summer for a weekend of camping. That should be fun. Especially as I now have a tent. of my very own. It's green (Michel tried to buy me pink, but unfortunately they were out. Imagine my disappointment.)


Michel wading in the mer. I really really love this photo. Obviously he didn't know I was taking it or else he would have protested or made a face like the one below. Silly man. Also, in this photo, as well as the following one, you can see the dark mean storm clouds sneaking up on us from the North.


Rémy, rocking out his aviator sunglasses, although there was no sun. If you look carefully, you can see me in the glasses taking the photo.


Rémy and Michel. Seriously, Michel won't let anyone take a photo of him looking normal. I have vowed to him on more than one occasion that I will one day get a good photo of him. Though, as I plan on doing my masters here, it could be years before that happens.

I also just realized that although I talk about them all the time and see them all the time personally, these are the first photos of Michel and Rémy that I've posted or even taken. Weird.