So.... a lot has been going on lately.

Aurelien came to visit for a week and it was fun. We did a bunch of touristy stuff, but mostly drank coffees in Place Plume. While he was here I had one of the BEST NIGHTS in Tours, if not in my life.

Here is a run down of it: David, Aurelien and I went to La Tosca for dinner where David and I shared a bottle of Bourgueil wine........OMG........no words. It was AMAZING. We also had a cheese plate.........so good...........drooooooooooool. There's no way I can describe how amazing that meal was. So, then we had our entrees (we ordered for each other........and by that I mean David picked for me and suggested what I should pick for him......because I'm horrible at ordering). It was delicious. We didn't finish, though....too much deliciousness! Then we had a drink after dinner (my first amaretto...yum!) and then the owner came over and bought us another drink and sat down and chatted with us for a bit. So cool.

So we left the restaurant and Aurelien went home. David and I went to Cafe Chaud where we proceeded to drink a bit and dance and meet up with his friends and head to Excalibur and dance and drink and etc. It was an amazing night. Too too much fun.

A couple of days after that I met my sister and my father in Paris with little to no drama finding them (which is harder than you'd think without cell phones). We had a couple stressful days in Paris (stressful for me, but not for them, I hope) and then headed to Avignon.

Here's an interesting tid-bit. I was expecting to get to Avignon and have that feeling that I was home. But, it really just felt slightly familiar and a bit odd... I guess, in the end, I realized that Tours is more of my home in France than Avignon ever was or will be. This is a positive point because Tours is, at least, 600 times cooler than Avignon. ha ha!

Anyway, after that we headed back to Tours (home sweet home) with only slight problems involving the train greve (yay, France). We went out Saturday night (my sister included), and have just been chilling and seeing the sights for the past couple of days. David has been so nice, for lack of a better adjective. He's letting my sister and my dad stay in his apartment for free for almost a week and he's staying with me. He completely displaced himself for my family. So nice. He also drove us to usse (the castle was slightly disappointing) and has cooked for us and, just in general, has been a better host than I ever could be. He such a sweetheart.

Everything is going alright other than that. I'm still having major life crisis about what I want to do within the next couple of years, but honestly, I've got next year planned out and I think that's as far as I can go at this point. There's just too much stuff bubbling around my head right now and I don't see it ending anytime soon. The worst part is that there's nobody to go to for advice because we're all having the same crisis. The only thing to be done is to wait and see how it all plays out. It does remind me of a quote, though, that used to be on AJ's facebook profile.........I don't know if it still is...... but it's from one of my favourite movies:


"Everyone I know is having a crisis. I know you're not supposed to get them until midlife but I think something's happening to our metabolism. I mean the world is moving so fast now, we are all chasing something so fast that we start freaking out long before our parents did. Feel my heart. Feel how fast it is? ‘Cause we don't ever stop to breathe anymore...You gotta remember to breathe or you'll die."


Follow Chris Carrabba's advice: Remember to breathe.

Always,
Amanda