Troisieme Jour

Saturday today!
The beginning of Emmas two week break, and a day before a ski competition that Jean Michael Organizes. To get out of the house and out of duties for organizing the competition Laurence and I went to Grenoble. (G R E noble Anna not the other one :) ) We toured around the middle of the town took the tram, and to Luarences obvious discomfort took tons of pictures of her and I.

Most of grenoble looks like it is ready to fall apart, very old ,once pretty, buildings with graffitti and missing bricks. Some crazy architect but nothing spectacular, and the poor section of grenoble is very clearly sepearted from the rich.

Driving with Laurence was quite something. She would point out corners that are dangerous (I will be driving Emma to Guitar which is about 30 min away) at the same time as cutting a blind corner , REALLY cutting a corner..

When we were stopped (ironically on a crosswalk) I asked her if pedestrians had the right of way She said that definatly yes, they do. We drove through probably five crosswalks during this converstaion, and waited for traffic on a few more.
She did give me a few very good rules that , even she said, were crazy. The main being that any street that intersects with yours on the right has the right of way. You can be on a main road with three lanes of traffic, and have a little dinky contry road intersect on the right, but if they don't have a traffic sign you must yield. Yes, this means you need to look for a sign on THEIR road. Apparently this is where lots of accidents occur...

After touring around Grenoble we went to get groceries . The store in gresse doesnt have anything really, so they do a big shop every few weeks, and shop one town over in he middle. Laurence is very sweet in trying to get me to find things that I usually eat,so we spent a while searching for peanut butter. We found it but it looks very pale, and funny.. If I dont like it we will see if it tastes good with a few cups of sugar in some cookies. We also got yogurt for me, their coconut yogurt doesnt really cut it.

Tonight we are having a big dinner with al the skiers, one of whom is a hunter. So we are eating Chamois-a deer like thing with horns, pretty cute actually. Laurence is pretty picky and has prepared something else for herself and I if we don't like it, which might be a good thing, as L says it comes with "strong" cheese.

Tommorrow we ski!

Ah- i forgot.
i guess not much happens in this town, or the region- a few of the towns have a newpaper together, with my picutre on thr front. HAHAHA