Chocolate waves

Hi from Bayonne,

Where did we leave off? oh ya, sleeping! hahaha Today we woke up early and went to the farmers market here. It was along the water and had a lot of people selling fruits and veggies they grow themselves. Very nice to see! We bought some fruit for the day, a small basque cake and some olives for yehuda. We then tried again to go to the chocolate factory. We took the bus this time, and got there in the time they said the people would be making the chocolate. We did the tour, saw the machines, saw some workers, but none were really making chocolate. This was a little dissapointing. After the tour, you get to sample chocolate!! TONS AND TONS! We tried different kinds from different areas of the world, and some samples of products the people at the factory make. Man, we were chocolalted out, and we didnt even try everything!! We didnt buy anything because we were going to the beach and the same store has a store in town, selling the same things.

next we took a city bus for 1.20 euros to the beach, in another city nearby called biaritz. The beach was pretty long, we went to the quieter section that had a wall which made shade. The waves were HUGE!! a very popular place for surfing. The beach wasnt as sandy as sitges or as rocky as malaga, it was somewhere in between. We sat and read and then headed into the water. Yehuda had to hold my hand ot make sure i didnt get carried away by the waves. The were the bigges waves either of us has ever swam in! it was a lot of fun but i can still feel the salt up my nose! After some wave jumping, we dried off and relaxed some more before taking the bus back to bayonne for lunch and a rest.

Tonights dinner was similar to last night, with traditional basque food. I again had poulet basquese, with last nights being better, and yehuda had tripe (which he thought was more tongue then what it is supposed ot be, which I am not too sure about, but i think its gross either way) and he had a yummy fish soup to start. No dessert tonight since we had tooooo much chocolate before 11 this morning!

After dinner we walked and sat by the water. We were going to go bowling but werent sure it was open and were not really in the moood in the end.

We had a very nice day though. It was a great weather day, being sunny with a nice breeze and we got to do some fun things. Tomorrow we head out to toulousse for yehuda to have his cassoulet, which he is so excited about. I just hope they have some good chocolate mousse there! hahaha

Bon soir!