Adventures in France: Allez Lyon!

Day Nine

This morning I woke up and got ready to check out the Sunday market right outside my apartment and along the river. It went on forever! The types of products sold were repeated with multiple different vendors but that way, things were pretty cheap! Essentially the local farmers' market with fresh produce, meats, cheese, bread, flowers, seafood, etc. etc.! There were some samples too. I tried a sample of cheese and wish I had known ahead of time that it was either sheep or goat (both don't agree with my taste buds). I kept walking and tried to find a trash bag but to no avail. So, I just tried to quickly swallow the cheese and I almost gagged, lol. Bleghhhh! Everything that I've eaten in France has been good except for that selective type of cheese. Note to self: be wary of free, unknown cheese. The flowers were so pretty and so bright! I bought 14 roses for 6 euros! I'm going to try and hide them and give them to my host mom on Valentine's Day...and if they look like they won't make it, maybe tomorrow lol. I keep forgetting to give them their housewarming gift (a WP embroidered blanket), so that'll go nicely together. I also bought some macaroons! I've never had them but I remember reading about them in the play The Dollhouse in 11th grade English class! Haha. The wife was always eating macaroons. I chose the 4 euros special and was hoping to get a good sample, but I was only able to have four. That's okay though, I guess that's cheap for French bakery specialties. I bought chocolate, pralines, vanilla, and caramel. They're extremely sweet, almost too much to handle haha. I'm torn between pralines and caramel as my favorite flavor.

I'm about to head out to the international church and then afterwards, Dave and I are going to see a football (soccer) game between Lyon and Lille! I'll put pictures of that up probably tomorrow. It's going to be a late night and since tomorrow is my first day of class, I'm going to head straight to bed!