Friday, March 5, 2010

Rest of week off

Hi, I'm going to tell you what happened after I got back from Paris last week. So from February 25-28th.
I stayed up to watch the women's hockey final on the 25th, but it started at 12:30 am on the 26th here. I watched until the end, so about until 3. Surprisingly, I wasn't overly tired the next day. I had been getting up pretty late all vacation though.

On I think Friday the 26th, Ambre, her dad and I went to a D-Day Beach one afternoon. I believe it was by the Juno Beach Canadian War Museum place, but I think the real Juno beach is elsewhere. The beach was quite long until the water started, but not all that steep. (I remember hearing about other D-Day beaches where the Nazis were on cliffs above.) It wasn't too sold, but not too warm. We saw a tank and a little fortifivation that were used in WWII by Canadians I think. We played this game with a mushy ball and raquets, as well as frisbee. We also walked to the water, and on the way I unexpectly got into pretty muddy sand. My shoes and bottoms of my pantlegs got wet sand on them, and it took 4 times in the dryer to dry my shoes! Also on the beach were little rocks and shells, this sea-weedy stuff or maybe it was just green muck, and I guess water.
Near the beach there are what I'm guessing were condos, as well as some museums, restaurants, docks for recreational boats, and a few stores. We went into one selling live seafood. Then we wer going to go bowling but given the state of some of our shoes shoes we weren't sure they'd accept us. We decided to go the next day. Later, I found that the skin on my hands seemed much more soft and moist. I wasn't sure if it was from being close to the sea that afternoon, or if it was mostly because I rubbed some of the green muck on my hands!

The next day we went bowling (10-pin) and I don't think I got a score over about 30! But these people starting talking to me because I was holding the ball with the wrong fingers and after I changed my fingering it helped.

The next day we had coquilles St-Jacques, which is shellfish in a sauce in half a shell. IT was pretty good but the small amount was enough. I also watched the mean's hockey final, which was on at 9:30 pm this time. It was a great game, but they stopped broadcaster stopped broadcasting the game right before the medal presentations and anthem, which I was really looking forward to seeing. I looked online to see if I could watch it there, but I couldn't find anything. I was happy to see that on Facebook people were celebrating though! I was a bit dissapointed the Olympics were over but I got over it.

1 comment:

  1. Maybe that green muck is magic for skin. You could package it and make millions!

    Mom

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