Our trip in pictures:

Here's a photo tour of our trip. :)

Tula graciously lent us her van for our trip... ;)

This is in Cadaques on the Costa Brava north of Barcelona. Getting from here to the French boarder was one of the narrowest and windiest roads I've even been on... that's saying a lot seeing as how I grew up on Hwy 96 in NorCal! Glad my car sick days are over or this would have been NO fun.

The surprise visit to Port de la Selva to visit Noelia. :)

Le petit-déjeuner (breakfast...) and our daily bread for sandwiches. Here I bought a mini quiche for breakfast and the woman at the bakery actually made pig noises trying to explain that it had ham in it! We all got a good laugh out of that...and some of the more stern French customers were giving her shocked looks.

This is dinner on the front porch...not a good shot of the spread, but also nothing very exciting to see: sandwiches, salad, bread and cheese.

The bridge at Avignon.

"On the bridge of Avignon, they are dancing they are dancing..." You had to pay to go out onto the bridge or I would have done a little dance for your viewing pleasure. ;) I learned and played that song on autoharp in 3rd grade at Junction Elem.

The Pope's Palace in Avignon.

A. fixing dinner. Here you can see our faithful van, "Lupita" and our little blue tent. This was the night we ended up "sleeping" in the van because there was a terrible thunderstorm. It was a beautiful campground, the most beautiful of the ones we stayed in, but in the middle of NOWHERE and we were camped right by a creek...Angelines thought for sure we'd be flooded out by morning.

...Just another pretty town from the road (hence the blur).

These are the views from our room in Rivolet, the town outside Lyon where we spent three nights.

My best friend, Miriam, sister of the groom. It seems we have a picture like this one nearly every year since sophomore prom! ;)

Angelines, Laura (mother of the groom) and me at the reception.

Self-portrait in the courtyard and Manoir de la Garde.

This is a video of the little town where we stopped for breakfast the night after the thunderstorms. It's the one that reminds me of Beauty and the Beast... Can't you just imagine Disney characters popping out of the windows and Belle singing: "There must be more than this provincial life..."??? :)