It's full day number one here in France. Coming from Hawaii, it took quite a while to get here, plus all of the time zone changes. We went from Hawaii, to LA, to Germany, then finally, Nice(pronounced Niece) France. It's a whole other world down here in the south of France. The people, the food, the rules, and especially the language. You hear so much stuff in America about how almost everyone in Europe speaks multiple languages, especially English. But that's not really the case here. You get a few people in restaurants or other food related services that speak some English, but a lot of people in the markets and cafés or bakery's, don't speak English. And if they do, it's only a little bit. So far today we woke up and walked around Mandelieu-La Napoule, the town we're staying in. We ended up grabbing some pastries from the Oasis Hotel Bakery and heading down to our Lee's yacht at the harbor(she's the one letting us stay in her house). We ate on the boat, delicious pain au chocolats,(chocolate crossaints), brioche, chocolate tarts, quichè and fresh peach. We hopped in her tiny car and headed into Cannes(Can). At this time, the Cannes film festival is coming to an end. We weren't there for that though, we wanted to go to the market. It was a huge pink building with beautiful columns, packed to the brim with stalls of fresh produce. There was everything from olives to fish to fruit and beyond. We immediately noticed steep prices in some of the foods and decided they were trying to rip off the more clueless tourists. We bought a few things and walked around a bit before deciding to cruise around Cannes in the car for a bit. We went to the Pointe Croisette (Point Cwah-zet) which, if you're looking at the bay, is on the left side. We headed down the coast a bit before driving back to La Napoule, looking at the shops and villages. My mother crashed as soon as we got home after going to the supermarket. Dad and I sat out on the kitchen terrace, eating olives, cheese and drinking wine. Well he was drinking the rosé. The two of us decided to cook garbanzo bean pasta for dinner. We got amazing French bread from a shop across the street. All in all, my first full day in France has just been mind blowing. Au revoir - Siena
