Au revoir Nice

Today is my last day on the Riviera, I'm heading to Barcelona tomorrow! While I've been here I have: laid out on the rocky beach of Nice, taken a day trip to Cannes, snorkeled in Antibes, had a run in with the French police (turns out they're not as liberal with male nudity as they are female), read a book, and just hung out relaxing.

I definitely want a summer house here when I grow up and become super rich. (don't worry Craig, I'll let your family rent out my house for a discounted rate) it's so beautiful and the people are pretty nice as well. Everyones on vacation, which made it really easy to slip into vacation mode and relax.

Something I have learned in my travels so far: twilight brings people together. Like a week ago I decided to rent New Moon from iTunes, so I downloaded it and everything then I couldn't find it!! I figured maybe you couldn't rent movies on the ipad like you can on your computer. A couple nights ago i was playing around w my ipad and I found it! So me and two aussies I met decided we were going to watch it in the dorm room, so we put the ipad up on a railing and sat in our beds and started watching. Then two other room mates came in, both from Sweden I think, and they sat on their beds watching it as well. Then the Dutch boy from our room crammed in the beds as well to watch it. It was a multicultural slumber party in here thanks to Twilight. Doesn't matter what language you speak, turns out everyone can communicate team Edward or team Jacob.

Sometimes I have trouble communicating where from the states I'm from. Saying "above California" doesn't work, because then people just nod enthusiastically and say oooooh California! They miss the whole "above" part. Then they assume I am used to hot weather, which we all know I am not. I think Oregon should change their state slogan to "Oregon: the state in between California and where they shot Twilight" because thats pretty must how i have to explain it to foreigners.

Alright well tomorrow I'm on a train at 8:35am on my way to Barcelona. The direct train was fully booked so I'm taking 4 different trains to arrive in Barcelona at 10:52 pm. Yes, that's 14 hours of travel. :) but from what I hear it's going to be totally worth it!! Let me me know if you have any recommendations on what to do while I'm there!

♥RG