We drove from Nice to Grenoble- a city that is nested into the Alps near the borders of Switzerland and Italy. We used this place to hibernate through the Easter holiday... tomorrow nothing would be open at all- so we took advantage of today and went to by groceries and settle ourselves into the hotel. We bought ingredients for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the next day and then decided to go out for the night.
Our night out of town was so unique and wonderful! Nearby there was a chairlift type invention- a wacky spacecraft-looking sphere- that carried us up to the top of one of the nearby mountains. It was a stunning, and for some nerve racking, experience to be carried hundreds of feet in the air over a river an up the mountain in little glass eggs. At the high altitude we were told there was a restaurant with the best view in the city! How exciting! We finally get there to find and astonishing view with a minuscule menu. Although there weren't many choices we were enthusiastic to find fondue on the menu! We ordered a gigantic (accidentally not the smaller choice) pot of cheese fondue and lots of red wine. We had a huge basket of bread, a fiery pot of fondue, a carafe of wine, and the best view of the French Alps one could find. We were starving and were basically swimming in our meal. The high altitude worked its magic and we found the couple of glasses of wine we consumed made us all equally loopy. After we had spent a good couple of hours in this mountainous tradition, mom was craving some steak!
We took the little space pods back down the mountain, but this time with a LOT more giggling and hysterics. We found a restaurant close by, that ended up being a very fancy, probably 4 star restaurant with an emotionless, typically French, non-humored waiter that ended up serving a steak to one person, a salad to another, a bowl of raspberries to me, and a creme brulée for Sam with yet another carafe of wine for the lot. We ended up eating and sharing everything at once- denying the law of civilized eating habits in France. This was high on our charts for the most hilarious situations in our vacation yet.
No comments:
Post a Comment