2:05pm - Wednesday: Menerbes

The wedding was a whirlwind. I can't remember half of it. What a blur. I do remember though how awesome of a day it was and that we were so happy to have so many people come out and support us. The Fairmont Hotel was nice but the time we stayed there was way too short. Barely had time to put our bags down before they needed to be checked in.

After about 12 hours in and out of planes and 8 hours on the road, we arrived in Menerbes last night to the most beautiful old apartment. It's a studio apartment...maybe about 500 square feet. The bedroom is up in a loft over the main living area.

We stayed up for a little bit sipping on the not-so-great bottle of wine that was here waiting for us from the caretaker.

Our plan for the day was to stay local and stay local we did! We haven't ventured out further than a couple blocks from the apartment because...yep...you guessed it: snow.

About a foot at least. In some wind swept areas, it's closer to a foot and a half. The owner called us here and said that it snows one day of the year and of course it has to be this, the first full day in France on our honeymoon. I guess it followed us from Vancouver.

So we've had to make do with the substandard boulangerie (bakery) in town here. The baguette wasn't anything spectacular and the criossant ang had was burnt. We also ended up buying some tagliatelle (dried, not fresh), some tomato sauce and 2 pork sausages to make for dinner tonight. It's not what we had in mind but considering the weather, people aren't going to be opening up the restaurants in town and the conditions aren't safe to be driving to a larger town.

Hopefully we can get to a market tomorrow and buy some fresh stuff.

It's hard to think that life is back to normal for many people this week because life here is so much different.

Take care,
ash