St. Tropez

St. Tropez

While everyone was preparing for their Derby day at home I was soaking up the sun in the lovely St. Tropez, our last CEA excursion for the program. Operation Johnny watch was up and running (he only lives 40 minutes away) but alas my life is a culmination of ironic events and he happened to be in Louisville, for the Derby.

The day began rather early with a 3.5 hour bus ride to the lovely town of St. Tropez. The streets were constipated with other tourists searching swanky shops for overpriced designer bags (you loved that alliteration, I know you did.) The chaos made me a bit closterphobic so we grabbed some food and sat on the port watching the yachts. Funny thing, in order to get from the pier to the yacht many times people will have a smaller boat to facilitate the journey, these commute boats are nicer than the boat we have at home. They are classy as all get out, which only furthers my conclusion that I need to marry a rich, rich man. We enjoyed the buzz of the OC of France for a while before heading off to the beach to top off our tans.

The beach was nice, small and crowded, but it served its purpose. James, Amy, and I started the visit off right with a dip in the Med. It was cold, my legs went numb, but it was incredible anyways. I mean, I would rather be in the freezing med, enjoying a day at la plage instead of getting ready for a horse race after a day of torrential downpour, and I am nearly positive you agree, whoever you are. We laid out for a few hours, most everyone ending up with newly red skin, thanks to the ridiculous price of sunscreen (12€ for a bottle?!? No thanks, I’ll settle with skin cancer…) maybe i'll put some pictures up later, but there weren't too many.

In other news:
1. I got a haircut from Marisa, it looks the same, but it sure feels healthier.
2. Sam and I have our tickets for Paris, it is going to be awesome. I also found out there is a music festival of sorts on the 21 while we are there where bands play for free on pretty much every street corner. That will be a good day.
3. This week is finals week and I think it’s going to be pretty easy.
4. The other weekend we went to Les Gorges de Verdone where we paddleboated through some gorges and it was amazing.