Day 19

Friday, today is my last day in Avignon. I got up around noon and I had some cereal, the usual. I got ready and at 3 Margaux’s mom took me to Avignon. She dropped me off and I spent 2 and a half hours all by my self, just being a tourist. Margaux didn’t come because of her sun burn. I walked around and went to all the shops I had been wanting to go into and I bought some lovely stuff both for me and for some other people, hehe. I was walking through one of the streets and a man with some kind of petition stopped me to ask me to sign. I said "sorry but I’m not French" he said in English "Oh! I Love this! I love you!!" Ha!! It was the funniest thing ever and I said "thank you" as he repeatedly said "I love you!" You just can’t beat those frenchies!! HA HA!!! After that strange and funny encounter, I continued on my way. After a while I stopped to watch a man who was playing the bagpipes, but the instrument looked like it was made from a pig skin! I mean it looked like a pig and everything, with the legs sticking out and all. I took video of him playing, he was very good. I had stopped to watch him play and there was a great big crowd around and by the time I got my camera out he had finished the song he was playing. Then everyone left. I was still there and I had my camera out, he saw and so that is the reason why, in the video, he is looking directly at me; because I was the only one there. I gave him a Euro because he played so well. After that I still had half an hour until Margaux’s mom was due to pick me up so I decided to sit down at a café. It was so hot and I was so thirsty that I just ordered water. The waiter asked if I wanted Evian, I said sure and he came back with a giant wine bottle sized Evian! I was taken aback because I was expecting a little plastic bottle of water. But I payed for it anyway and when he came back with my change he brought a cup with cherry flavored syrup for me though I hadn’t asked. It was nice of him, though the water was 5 Euros! I have learned my lesson, NO EVIAN!! TOO EXPENSIVE!!! Oh well, the half hour I spent there was very pleasant.
Margaux’s mom picked me up at 5:30 with Margaux and Xenya in the car. We then went to the movie store and they rented some French movie that I have forgotten the name of. We then went to the supermarket to by dinner because the "frigo was empty" and while there I went to the electronics and book store and bought a cook book that I had been looking at the first time I went to that store. It is really neat!!! Then we went back and I played a bit on my computer and then at 8 dinner was ready. We had cantaloupe, pasta salad with cucumber and tomatoes and vinegar dressing, then these spring roll type things with flakey crusts and meat and carrots and other veggies inside, then quiche with ham in it. After that some unsweetened yogurt and I crumbled some dark and milk chocolate with nuts into it along with a heavy helping of sugar. Then, of course, a nectarine, gotta have my nectarine!!!
After that I went upstairs with Margaux and Xenya and we watched the movie which was in French with English subtitles. It was interesting and had me going but it’s not the kind of movie I would watch again. Then I took my last shower and went to bed. I actually didn’t get to sleep until about 3:30AM and then I got up at 6 in the morning so I got very little sleep.