My final real day in Toulouse....
On Sunday, we went to the opera! Now, I have never been to the opera and this one was going to be in Italian. It was La Boheme, fortunately, and Rent the Musical is loosely based on it. We read a synopsis anyways and headed out, in the rain, to the theatre.
After enjoying a ham and cheese grilled sandwich, very French thing, we got in line for student rush. This is a process where one gets in line about 15-30 minutes before the show starts to get tickets that no one else purchased. We were sitting about 20 rows back in the orchestra for 10€, which usually costs 70€. Not bad, considering I did not even show my student ID (which I forgot in America, no i don't want to talk about it). Well, I did not fall asleep during the opera, but it was close. Don't get me wrong, the music was beautiful and the main characters were quite captivating, I was just really tired and lost. The opera was subtitled in French so my companions were laughing and following along and I sort of just knew the gist. It was a solid first opera nonetheless.
After grabbing a shake and splitting a gran frite in McDs, Leigh and I slopped home in the rainstorm. We were set to have another meal with the Von Trapps, yes they enjoyed me that much. I was secretly thrilled. We had lasagna, which normally I don't like but it was pretty good. Then dessert came. We had popcorn, canned pears and cookies from Belgium. so random! But of course, a delicious combo. Camille is basically me wince she is the oldest of five and serves all the kids when the food comes (they are aged 6-11 I believe). After dinner, they were flipping through a photo album of the whole family hiking up the Pyrennes. The day we davids hike up a mountain, I am video taping and selling it to ABC.
XO
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