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France, Italy and Switzerland, August 2002 Continued
Day
16 Saturday
was a big day for your mom as in the morning she met with the Chef of
the restaurant were she would intern for the next three months.
She made me wait outside. After the interview she was very excited
and thought the chef was very nice. The chef was on vacation, I
met with the Sous Chef Olivier. After working there for a few
weeks she changed her mind! Yeah, he
became a total a**hole, but then I changed my mind again because I
realized he was just socially awkward. After
the meeting we went to look for a book on Normandy, as I wanted to rent
a car and go see the D-day beaches. We didn't get a car because
none of the agencies were open on Sunday and we didn't want to deal with
parking the car in Paris overnight. I was upset but got over it.
When we returned The Lord of the Rings we rented two porno videos from
the automated machine, at only 1.50 euros each for six hours we figured
we couldn't go wrong. We did, and ended up watching only a few
minutes of each. I was surprised at
how uninteresting and utterly cheesy the videos were. It was
difficult to watch! I found myself looking through a guidebook and discovered that we could go on a candle lit tour of Vaux Le Vicomte, the palace that inspired Versailles. The candle lit tours only occur Saturday nights in the summer so we jumped at the chance and enjoyed the experience. The only downside was that we had to take a cab from the train station to the castle and then back again which was pricey. Plus, the last train back to Paris left earlier than we would have liked.
A modern highlight of the visit the exhibit they had which explained the layout of the gardens and castle and showed how the work progressed. The exhibit worked by projecting images from the ceiling straight down onto a white table with contours representing the castle and grounds. Despite being in French, my attention kept the entire time. I thought the visit was totally worth it. Just the kitchen! MY GOD THE KITCHEN!!! (fall down in a mock-dead faint)
Surgery
followed when we got back to Paris when I made your mom cut off a skin
tag/mole that was growing on the outside of my right armpit. She
vows never to do it again even though she did a fantastic job. NEVER
AGAIN!!!
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