Dinner with the girls and First excursion

These past few days have been quite exciting!!! This past week my host family was gone, and in all honesty it was kinda nice to be able to act myself and not have to worry about their schedules or anything. But it also allowed me to work on my cooking skills such as making savory crepes or grilling up a sausage and making pasta with it etc.

Friday night, we took advantage of the fact that my host family wasn't there. We decided to take the time and cook ourselves a nice dinner. So after buying groceries from the store we made our dinner: we had salad with this interesting kind of greens that looked like cloves, but also had tomatoes, bell peppers and pears. For a dressing it was oil and vinegar like the French. After that we had potatoes with onions and garlic that we amazing, and we seared some pork we marinated in a pan. It was delicious!!! For dessert we shared 4 kinds of little tartes and cakes we picked up from the Patiserie. All were good, but my favorite was the lemon tartelette. But we just spent the night eating, drinking wine, and enjoying each other's company.

Today was quite an enjoyable day. We headed out early to St. Malo which is located in the Bretagne region of France and on the Atlantic Coast. It was beautiful. Although the town was destroyed during World War 2, it was rebuilt to look identical to how it was prior. And the beaches! They were so nice! The weather was beautiful to go today. A little grey, but thats it. We then decided to try the regional specialaties. We went to a creperie and had galettes, which are a buckwheat crepe. In all honesty I prefer normal crepes, but they were good. We also tried the cider that the region is known for. It pretty much tasted like an alcoholic apple juice, which is what we expected. But we also tasted the two regional cakes; one was a custard one, the other was kinda like a round filo-dough with tons of butter and sugar. I prefered the second.

After that we headed to Mont St. Michel. This place is pretty well know because of the fact that during high tide it is an island, but during low tide you walk or drive to it. Its also built up pretty high so you get a nice view of the area. After St. Malo I was a tad bit dissapointed. It was really touristy, where St. Malo wasn't. But thats to be expected. The Abbey at the top was really pretty and the sights were great. I'm quite amazed at how they built it.

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