Seriously?? on the plus side...mmm Cassoulet

Hi everyone,
we are heading into our last day as part of our vacation since tuesday most of the day we are travelling and packing in Paris, so tomorrow is officially our last vacation day, which also means,......sorry people but hoodas coming home!! Now I know how much everyone missed me...lol just kidding. I am really happy to be coming home, and I am really thankfull to Jessica for letting me do this trip, and supporting me through these last 10 months. And of course thanks to everyoen for your support as well.

Anyways today was an ok day. We woke up around 9ish and headed out in search of a cafe for breakfast. we found one and ate outside, and gave me a sad feeling knowing I am leaving all that for the smog of Toronto..lol. But we sat outside, Jessica had a mushroom omelette, and I had something I wanted to eat since I came to France. I had a Croque Madame, which is basically a ham and cheese sandwich with a egg sunny side up on top. It was really good.

We then headed back to the hotel, packed our stuff yet again and checked out. We went to the train station and waited for our train. We read and when my book was done I worked on my resume, and business plan for my restaurant.

I worked some estimates, based on what I have read and spoken to people, so I have better composites for my meetings next week.

When we arrived we walked all of 4 minutes to the hotel, and checked in. The guy (who I think owns the place) was very nice, gave us a slightly larger room, as well as let us print off our train tickets for Tuesdays train ride back to Paris.

We headed out to go to the tourist office, but it had just closed ten minutes earlier, so we decided to walk to the water. We walked around, saw a dead body, we think the guy jumped, as he was in a body bag, and there was blood on the boardwalk. We quickly walked away and went to the "beach". Now when you picture a beach you see, sand (or rocks in some places) water as far as the eye can see, large majestic waves, the sound of the ocean the smell of the salt...and yet there wasnt any of that at all at the "Beach" here!! It was grassy area with lawn chairs set out over looking the river. Far cry from a beach if you ask me.

Well we then decided to go back to the city center to maybe watch a film before heading for dinner. There was one film in English, and we wanted to enjoy dinner. So we headed to a restaurant that was reccomended to us, but was closed because its sunday, so we went back to a restaurant called Maison de Cassoulet. Now to me, that sounds like the place knows what they are doing when it comes to Cassoulet. And I was not dissapointed. I ordered the cassoulet meal, which was duck foie gras for starters, and cassoulet for main course.

And now for the "Seriously?? part of the name in the title".

We were sitting right next to a table where there were two couples. Let me set the stage for you. One older couple (american) and the second couple which was younger (French). The younger female didnt look like she spoke much english. Well the older Gentleman (american) talked so loud and so much, and there were alot of things that were beign said that made me want to turn around and correct what was being said at the table, but it wasnt my place, so instead of biting my tongue I stuffed my mouth with bread. Its tough to fully describe, but after we left the restaurant I said to JEssica, we just had a dinner and a show. IT was more funny than anything else.

Then as we were walking, we were aproached by a woman for the second time tonight and asked us for money. Being polite we said, "sorry but we dont have any money". She screamed at us to go away, and something about only saying sorry to someone in the hospital. Didnt really get it, but we walked away, confirming our suspicions that Toulouse is a slightly bizzare city.

We are now back in the hotel planning for tomorrow.

We'll blog tomorrow

Nighty o
Yehuda and Jessica