The 3rd of April

On April 3, 2009 Samuel and I arrived at the train station in Angers at exactly 2pm in the afternoon awaiting the arrival of my mother and Karla (a good family friend/basically family) with a lot of anticipation. For an hour and a half we waited, becoming increasingly worried- did they sleep on the train and miss their stop? did they get lost in the airport? where are they? And at 3:53pm just before we were about to leave I finally recognized someones face! I ran down the ramp leading to the trains and hugged and kissed my mom and Karla and of course we chatted about their adventure through the airport and train stations.

We rented our car at the train station (Renault Kangoo) and had a blast finally being in a car after 2 months. It was a totally different perspective of Angers on the road then it was by foot. Things went by faster and everything seemed much closer together. We settled Karla and mom into their hotel ran to the supermarket for some cheese, a baguette, coke, water, grapes, and two bananas for the perfect jet lagged hunger. After they took showers we took them two blocks to Sam's homestay for "un petit gôute". We sat around the living room table while while laughing and talking (of course Sam and I were translating) and then Michelle brought out a basket of chocolates bottle of "Champagne" (this isn't so simple to say because the name "champagne" is from a specific region in France- this type of sparkling wine was from the region of Anjou) but it was abnormally frozen. So when Pascal opened this beautiful bottle of "Champagne" for his guests it became a science experiment of constantly exploding frozen wine. No one knew what to do so we just watched it explode for awhile laughing as hard as was possible.

After that very eventful visit, we drove over to my homestay for a full course meal. It was so awesome to have my mom meet my French family, although Karla and mom were extremely tired it was still very lively. After a full course meal and translating conversations and jokes- we all crashed and looked forward to the next day of starting our vacation to the South of France, Switzerland, and Paris!