French Cafes and Quiet Sundays

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This weekend has been pretty relaxed, definitely the only quiet weekend we'll have!

Saturday we met up with Sharon and Helen. Sharon and her husband, Paul, are basically our surrogate parents while we're here. They've been so great helping us with anything and everything we need. Helen is their amazing 15 year old daughter who is always willing to translate and help out. Anyway, Sharon and Helen met us at Part Deux, a huge mall, where we did a little bit of shopping so we don't look so "Americain". After we were shopped out, Helen went with Caitlin, James and I to the travel agency to purchase tickets for this weekend's trip to Barcelona (!!) and our trip to Paris in a couple of weeks. We then took Helen out for a cup of coffee at a cute cafe around the corner from their apartment. Here are James, Caitlin, and I enjoying our coffee:
Today, we woke up late as result of still being in the wrong time zone, and didn't leave the apartment until close to 2. We thought we'd wander around and check out the shops and cafes around us, but soon we realized that EVERYTHING is closed on Sundays. We found one cafe that was open and ordered a cappuccino, which is what we consider a coffee. (If you were to order a coffee, they'd give you a shot of espresso).

After our coffee, we decided to go to a park. Now, yesterday, Masin and I had seen a map of Lyon and there was this really neat looking park with a lake in the middle. We had no idea how far it was, but knew the general direction, so we decided to check it out. It was a lot further than we thought, but definitely worth the hour walk. The park was huge and bustling! We were able to sit in the grass and see people boating in the lake, walk around the gardens, and just relax. It was really quite fun.


The rest of the night has been pretty quiet as some people start classes tomorrow. In the coming days I'll post pictures of our school building (Megan- I'm taking pictures of the keyboards tomorrow!) and Villeurbanne, the suburb we live in.