Day two had us visiting the village of Beynac. The region is dotted with castles and this was our first visit. This was actually France's national independence day, and so we had the village nearly to ourselves.
Highlights from the day (which does not yet include a proposal for those of you curious what place it happened)
A parking ticket, ughh, but the positive outcome was the opportunity to use our french in a way we never imagined, let me tell you though they definitely don't teach you how to weasel your way out of a ticket in high school french class.
Later that day Ryan and I went swimming in the river and to our surprise what looked like a calm, lazy river was actually water that was flowin' fast. It was like swimming in the flume at the olympic center, going against world record pace. We unfortunately don't have any video of it, but we literally swam in place, they were 20 sec to a minute mad dashes that landed us in the same place we started, there were a lot of good laughs to be had, from us and those on shore!
That night was our village's bastille day celebration. I think my mom's camera might have photos from the festivities, but imagine tasty regional food, duck, salad, cheese, mousse au chocolat, all the polka music you could imagine (let me tell you my mom (Nancy) is a mean polka dance and a great polka teacher, we polka'd together! and fireworks. It was a great evening that gave us a chance to experience local traditions and practice our french!
Enjoy the photos!
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